Cognitive linguistics investigations
Subtitle: across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries
By: edited by June Luchjenbroers.
Contributors: Luchjenbroers, June.
Series: Human cognitive processing -- v. 15
Publisher: John Benjamins; John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Cognitive grammar -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "The total body of papers presented in the volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draws on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of research interest from the field of cognitive linguistics. These areas include: lexical semantics, cognitive grammar, metaphor, prototypes, pragmatics, narrative and discourse, computational and translation models; and are considered within the contexts of: language change, child language acquisition, language and culture, grammatical features and word order and gesture. Despite possible differences in philosophical approach to the role of language in cognitive tasks, these papers are similar in a fundamental way: they all share a commitment to the view that human categorization involves mental concepts that have fuzzy boundaries and are culturally and situation-based."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Chiefly revisions of papers presented at a 4th Australian Lingustics Institute workshop, held in July, 1998, at the University of Queensland.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1