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Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in a fast-growing field of linguistics. The much-needed introduction will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates in linguistics and cognitive science.
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This introductory textbook surveys the field of cognitive linguistics as a distinct area of study. Clearly organized and accessibly written, it provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the main topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and together provides a synthesis of study and research in this fast-growing field of linguistics. This much-needed introduction will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates in linguistics and cognitive science.
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Cognitive linguistics is taken here to refer to the approach to the study of language that began to emerge in the 1970s and has been increasingly active since the 1980s (now endowed with an international society with biennial conferences and a journal, Cognitive Linguistics). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
schematic idioms, graded centrality, construal operations, complete inheritance model, substantive idioms, extragrammatical idioms, default construal, default specificity, good taxonyms, semantic map model, idiomatically combining expression, profiled concept, absolute construal, construction grammar theories, construal approach, active zone analysis, decoding idiom, supra term, meronomic relations, relative construal, irregular word forms, past tense schema, argument structure constructions, construction grammarians, high type frequency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cognitive Grammar, Central Deictic, Modern Greek, Patricia Cornwell, Exposure Principle, Invariance Hypothesis, Old English, British English, Perceptual Deictic, Valued Object, Access Principle, American English, American Heritage Dictionary, Caused Motion, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Mark Spitz, Modern English, Northern Light, The Chronicle, The X-er the Y-er, There's Harry New!
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Cognitive linguistics is taken here to refer to the approach to the study of language that began to emerge in the 1970s and has been increasingly active since the 1980s (now endowed with an international society with biennial conferences and a journal, Cognitive Linguistics). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
schematic idioms, graded centrality, construal operations, complete inheritance model, substantive idioms, extragrammatical idioms, default construal, default specificity, good taxonyms, semantic map model, idiomatically combining expression, profiled concept, absolute construal, construction grammar theories, construal approach, active zone analysis, decoding idiom, supra term, meronomic relations, relative construal, irregular word forms, past tense schema, argument structure constructions, construction grammarians, high type frequency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cognitive Grammar, Central Deictic, Modern Greek, Patricia Cornwell, Exposure Principle, Invariance Hypothesis, Old English, British English, Perceptual Deictic, Valued Object, Access Principle, American English, American Heritage Dictionary, Caused Motion, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Mark Spitz, Modern English, Northern Light, The Chronicle, The X-er the Y-er, There's Harry New!
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- Construction Grammar (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Charles Fillmore on 10 pages
- Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell on page 193, and page 213
- Lexical Semantics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by D. A. Cruse in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Child Language (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Alison J. Elliot in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Cognitive Psychology by Douglas Medin PhD in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Hubert Cuyckens on 12 pages
- Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads: A Cognitive Perspective (Trends in Linguistics) by Antonio Barcelona on 9 pages
- Cognitive Grammar (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) by John R. Taylor on 7 pages
- The Construal of Space in Language and Thought (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Rene Dirven on 6 pages
- Words and Other Wonders (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Dirk Geeraerts on 6 pages
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