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The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies.
The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas:
• Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar;
• Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others;
• Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography;
• New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Cognitive linguistics: Retrospect and prospect
Xu Wen and John R. Taylor
Part I
Basic theories and hypotheses
1 Cognitive semantics
Dirk Geeraerts
2 Cognitive grammar
Cristiano Broccias
3 Construction grammar and frame semantics
Hans C. Boas
4 Multimodal construction grammar: From multimodal constructs to multimodal constructions
Thomas Hoffman
5 Natural semantic metalanguage
Cliff Goddard
6 Word grammar
Richard Hudson
7 The creativity of negation
Rachel Gioral
Part II
Central topics in cognitive linguistics
8 Embodiment
Xu Wen and Canzhong Jiang
9 Image schemas
Dennis Tay
10 Categorization
Xu Wen and Zhengling Fu
11 Standard and extended conceptual metaphor theory
Zoltan Kövecses
12 Conceptual Metonymy Theory revisited: some definitional and taxonomic issues
Ruiz de Mendoza
13 Force Dynamics
Walter De Mulder
14 Construal
Zeki Hamawand
15 Concepts and conceptualization
Canzhong Jiang and Kun Yang
16 Iconicity
Günter Radden
17 Motivation
Klaus-Uwe Panther
18 Grammaticalization, lexicalization, and constructionalization
Renata Enghels
19 Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification
Lieselotte Brems
20 Grounding
Frank Brisard
21 Humor and cognitive linguistics
Salvatore Attardo
22 Linguistic synaesthesia
Francesca Strik Lievers, Chu-Ren Huang and Jiajuan Xiong
Part III
Interface between cognitive linguistics and other fields or disciplines
23 Culture in language and cognition
Chris Sinha
24 Cognitive linguistics and figurative language
Herbert L. Colston
25 Qualifying conceptualizations
Jan Nuyts
26 Cognitive pragmatics
Marco Mazzone
27 Cognitive poetics and the problem of metaphor
Jeroen Vandaele
28 Cognitive linguistics and discourse studies
Ulrike Schröder
29 Signed languages and cognitive linguistics
Sherman Wilcox and Rocío Martínez
30 Cognitive linguistics and gesture
Julius Hassemer and Vito Evola
31 Cognitive linguistics and translation studies
Kairong Xiao
32 Cognitive linguistics and language pedagogy
Dilin Liu and Tzung-Hung Tsai
33 Cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition
Han Luo
34 Cognitive linguistics and digital lexicography
Esra' Moustafa Abdelzaher
35 Cognitive linguistics and phytonymic lexicon
Nataliya Panasenko
36 Cognitive linguistics and proverbs
Sadia Belkhir
Part IV
New directions in cognitive linguistics
37 Cognitive neuroscience of language
Rutvik H. Desai and Nicholas Riccardi
38 Cognitive linguistics and language evolution
Gábor Győri
39 Diachronic construction grammar
Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman
40 Multimodality
Charles J. Forceville
41 Foundational Issues in Biolinguistics
Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros
42 Thinking on behalf of the world: Radical embodied ecolinguistics
Sune Vork Steffensen and Stephen J. Cowley
43 Cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology
Yuzhi Shi
Index
Biography
Xu Wen is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of College of International Studies at Southwest University, China.
John R. Taylor was senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
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