Download e-book for iPad: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Oxford by Dirk Geeraerts,Hubert Cuyckens

The Oxford instruction manual of Cognitive Linguistics offers a entire evaluate of the most theoretical options and descriptive/theoretical versions of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its quite a few subfields, theoretical in addition to applied.

The first twenty chapters provide readers the chance to procure an intensive wisdom of the elemental analytic ideas and descriptive types of Cognitive Linguistics and their history. The ebook begins with a suite of chapters discussing varied conceptual phenomena which are well-known as key thoughts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, psychological areas, and so forth. A moment set of chapters bargains with Cognitive Grammar, building Grammar, and notice Grammar, which, every one of their personal means, assemble the fundamental recommendations right into a specific conception of grammar and a selected version for the outline of grammatical phenomena. distinctive realization is given to the interrelation among Cognitive and building Grammar. a 3rd set of chapters compares Cognitive Linguistics with different kinds of linguistic study (functional linguistics, independent linguistics, and the heritage of linguistics), therefore giving a readers a greater grip at the place of Cognitive Linguistics in the panorama of linguistics at large.

The ultimate chapters follow those simple notions to varied extra particular linguistic domain names, illustrating how Cognitive Linguistics bargains with the conventional linguistic subdomains (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, textual content and discourse), and demonstrating the way it handles linguistic edition and alter. ultimately they give thought to its significance within the area of utilized Linguistics, and view interdisciplinary hyperlinks with study fields comparable to philosophy and psychology.

With a widely known forged of members from worldwide, this reference paintings should be of curiosity to researchers and complicated scholars in (cognitive) linguistics, psychology, cognitive technology, and anthropology.