| Cognitive Perspectives on Language Contributor(s): Fisiak, Jacek (Editor), Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3631353146 ISBN-13: 9783631353141 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $63.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 238 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The papers collected in the present volume show that the terms cognitivism and cognitive, so common in present day linguistic discourse, do not refer to a single theoretical mode or approach to language. Firstly, the papers show that cognitivism is a lively research area accommodating a wide spectrum of approaches. Secondly, they address a number of issues ranging from grammaticalization, event structure, semantic representation, equivalence, image schematic representations and lexicography to poetry, metaphor, metonymy, and national mentality. Some of the contributions deal with the linguistic phenomena in one language, while others take up a cross-linguistic approach. |