Grounding
Subtitle: The Epistemic of Deixis and Reference (Cognitive Linguistic Research)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783110173697
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Language; Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Reference (Linguistics); General; Cognitive grammar; Deixis; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Grammar, Comparative and general
First sentence: Grounding is proposed as a technical term in Cognitive Grammar1 to characterize grammatical predications that indicate the relationship of a designated entity to the ground or situation of speech, including the speech event itself, its participants, and their respective spheres of knowledge.