Authors:Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, Rene Dirven, Franci
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: perspectives, mouton, reader, future, applications, linguistics, current, cognitive
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 2006-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 3110189518
ISBN-13: 9783110189513

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 studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific information value. Key features: -

Author: Robert Mailhammer
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: trends, linguistics, studies, monographs, system, new, strong, verbs, foundations, development, germanic
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $123.00
ISBN-10: 3110199572
ISBN-13: 9783110199574

As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology. It reveals that the morphological peculiarities and the etymological problems of the strong verbs have been considerably underestimated. The first part of the book explains how drastically the inherited verb system was transformed when it was uniformized and simplified around a functionalized verbal ablaut. In particular, it is shown that the systemi

Authors:Yu, Ning,
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: cognitive, applications, linguistics, language, perspective, heart, chinese, culture
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $137.00
ISBN-10: 3110205165
ISBN-13: 9783110205169

This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The concept of HEART, encoded in the word xin, lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. The study explores this important concept and its cultural models along both diachronic and synchronic dimensions and with a cross-cultural perspective.

Authors:Wolf, Hans-Georg,
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: cognitive, applications, linguistics, approach, sociolinguistic, englishes, world
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $137.00
ISBN-10: 3110196336
ISBN-13: 9783110196337

The book presents Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for the study of cultural variation in world Englishes and within languages in general by offering a corpus-based analysis of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English. It also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and positions Cognitive Linguistics within a wider hermeneutic tradition.

Author: Thora Tenbrink
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: cognitive, linguistic, research, relationships, investigation, time, language, space
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $123.00
ISBN-10: 3110195208
ISBN-13: 9783110195200

Does temporal language depend on spatial language? This widespread view is intuitively appealing since spatial and temporal expressions are often similar or identical. Also, metaphors consistently express temporal phenomena in terms of spatial language, pointing to a close semantic and conceptual relationship. But what about the application of the two kinds of linguistic expressions in natural discourse? The book draws together findings on terms that describe the relation of objects or events to each other (such as in front / behind, before / after, etc.), highlighting the relationship bet

Authors:McElhinny, Bonnie S.,
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: language, power, social, process, globalization, gender, material, girls, words, worlds
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 3110195755
ISBN-13: 9783110195750

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from a broad spectrum of national contexts: Catalonia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Tonga, and the United States. Cases studies consider language and gender in changing workplaces, schools and immigrant integration workshops, as well as in new and emerging sites for consum

Authors:Randy J. Lapolla, Chenglong Huang,
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: grammar, mouton, library, glossary, texts, qiang, annotated
Number of Pages: 445
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 311017829X
ISBN-13: 9783110178296

This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as