The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199738637 ISBN 13: 9780199738632

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied.

The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive Linguistics and their background. The book starts with a set of chapters discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized as key concepts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set of chapters deals with Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, and Word Grammar, which, each in their own way, bring together the basic concepts into a particular theory of grammar and a specific model for the description of grammatical phenomena. Special attention is given to the interrelation between Cognitive and Construction Grammar. A third set of chapters compares Cognitive Linguistics with other forms of linguistic research (functional linguistics, autonomous linguistics, and the history of linguistics), thus giving a readers a better grip on the position of Cognitive Linguistics within the landscape of linguistics at large.

The remaining chapters apply these basic notions to various more specific linguistic domains, illustrating how Cognitive Linguistics deals with the traditional linguistic subdomains (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, text and discourse), and demonstrating how it handles linguistic variation and change. Finally they consider its importance in the domain of Applied Linguistics, and look at interdisciplinary links with research fields such as philosophy and psychology.

With a well-known cast of contributors from around the world, this reference work will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in (cognitive) linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology.

About this title

About the Author:

Dirk Geeraerts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leuven

Hubert Cuyckens is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Leuven

Review:

"The editors have brought together contributions from many of the world's leading cognitive linguists. The overviews that these scholars provide are authoritative, lucid, and highly informative, and, like all good surveys, are not mere summaries but also offer useful syntheses and critiques of the relevant research. [the Handbook] is unique in its depth and breadth of coverage, and is therefore destined to become a standard reference in the field." --Language

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199738637
• ISBN 13: 9780199738632
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1368
• Editor: Geeraerts Dirk, Cuyckens Hubert