Cognitive Linguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

   An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

   By Michael Burke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning

   Theoretical Basics and Experimental Evidence

   By Andrea Tyler

   This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first part of the book introduces the basics of cognitive linguistic theory in a way that is geared toward second language...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature

   By Alison Gibbons

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer...

   Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
4. Cognitive Linguistics

   Edited by Adele Goldberg

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   This new addition to Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarly research on cognitive linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics is a broad approach to language that places psychological reality at the top of the list of...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
5. Philosophy of Language

   Edited by A. P. Martinich

   Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

   What do ‘meaning’ and ‘truth’ mean? And how are they situated in the concrete practices of linguistic communication? What is the relationship between words and the world? How—with words—can people do such varied things as marry, inaugurate a president, and declare a country’s independence? How is...

   Published November 13th 2008 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

   Edited by Peter Robinson, Nick C. Ellis

   This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). The first two sections identify theoretical and empirical strands of Cognitive Linguistics, presenting them as a coherent whole. The third section discusses the relevance...

   Published February 24th 2008 by Routledge
7. Cognitive Linguistics

   An Introduction

   By Vyvyan Evans, Melanie Green

   A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled...

   Published March 2nd 2006 by Routledge
8. Conceptualizing Metaphors

   On Charles Peirce’s Marginalia

   By Ivan Mladenov

   Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

   The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be...

   Published October 19th 2005 by Routledge
9. The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes

   By Graeme Ritchie

   Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

   This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyze...

   Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge
10. Cognitive Poetics in Practice

    Edited by Joanna Gavins, Gerard Steen

    Cognitive Poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides a set of case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetics in...

    Published February 26th 2003 by Routledge