Cognitive linguistics : current applications and future perspectives / edited by Gitte Kristiansen [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special st.

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Introduction : cognitive linguistics : current applications and future perspectives / Gitte Kristiansen [and others] -- Part one. The cognitive base. Methdology in cognitive linguistics / Dirk Geeraerts ; Polysemy and the lexicon / John R. Taylor ; Cognitive approaches to grammar / Cristiano Broccias -- Part two. The conceptual leap. Three dogmas of embodiment : cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science / Tim Rohrer ; Metonymy as a usage event / Klaus-Uwe Panther ; Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric and ideology / Seana Coulson -- Part three. The psychological basis. The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Marcus Perlman ; X is like Y : the emergence of similarity mappings in children's early speech and gesture / Seyda Özçalışkan and Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Part four. Go tell it on the mountain. Energy through fusion at last : synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics / Gary B. Palmer ; Cognitive linguistic applications in secord or foreigh language instruction : rationale, proposals and evaluation / Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg -- Part five. Verbal and beyond : vision and imagination. Visual communication : signed language and cognition / Terry Janzen ; Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework : agendas for research / Charles Forceville ; The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics : cognitive poetics / Margaret H. Freeman -- Part six. Virtual reality as a new experience. Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics / John A. Barnden ; Computability as a test on linguistics theories / Tony Veale.

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