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This collection of papers addresses new trends in Cognitive
Linguistics. Three parts of the book focus on Conceptual Metaphor
Theory and Integration Network Analysis. Both the theoretical
contributions and the empirical case studies stress the importance
of contextual factors in the meaning making processes. They employ
qualitative methods to analyze the use of metaphor in political
discourse and in the conceptualization of emotions. The data sets
include multimodal data, sign languages and co-speech gestures. The
fourth part of the book contains two corpus-based studies. The
fifth part concentrates on the grammatical categories of passive
voice and aspect. One contribution discusses the problem of
categorization in phonology.
The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the
relation between language and meaning. It proposes various
theoretical approaches to the issue ranging from a synergetic
theory of meaning merging the cognitive and the socio-historical
perspectives, through holistic, evolutionary models and a revision
of some of the assumptions of Cognitive Metaphor Theory to the
discussion of the role of pragmatic competence in meaning
construction. A number of papers make recourse to corpus based
studies and psycholinguistic experiments. The topics of specific
linguistic investigations cover such diverse issues as idiom
processing, emotion words in Chinese, valuation of abstract nouns,
the preposition at and scalar adjectives. Several papers explore
the application of the reflections on the nature of meaning to
lexicography and translation. One, self-reflective article
investigates the consequences of the unformulated assumptions about
meaning for the coherence of proposed linguistic theories. The
volume firmly places the study of meaning in the centre of the
linguistic research by showing its significance for linguistic
theory and its applications.
The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the
relation between language and meaning. It proposes various
theoretical approaches to the issue ranging from a synergetic
theory of meaning merging the cognitive and the socio-historical
perspectives, through holistic, evolutionary models and a revision
of some of the assumptions of Cognitive Metaphor Theory to the
discussion of the role of pragmatic competence in meaning
construction. A number of papers make recourse to corpus based
studies and psycholinguistic experiments. The topics of specific
linguistic investigations cover such diverse issues as idiom
processing, emotion words in Chinese, valuation of abstract nouns,
the preposition at and scalar adjectives. Several papers explore
the application of the reflections on the nature of meaning to
lexicography and translation. One, self-reflective article
investigates the consequences of the unformulated assumptions about
meaning for the coherence of proposed linguistic theories. The
volume firmly places the study of meaning in the centre of the
linguistic research by showing its significance for linguistic
theory and its applications.
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