Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

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Cognitive Linguistics is an approach to language study based on the assumptions that our linguistic abilities are firmly rooted in our cognitive abilities, that meaning is essentially conceptualization, and that grammar is shaped by usage. The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides state-of-the-art overviews of the numerous subfields of cognitive linguistics written by leading international experts which will be useful for established researchers and novices alike. It is an interdisciplinary project with contributions from linguists, psycholinguists, psychologists, and computer scientists which will emphasise the most recent developments in the field, in particular, the shift towards more empirically-based research. In this way, it will, we hope, help to shape the field, encouraging methodologically more rigorous research which incorporates insights from all the cognitive sciences. Editor Ewa Dąbrowska was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2018. unique must-have companion covering all areas ofcognitive linguistics highlighting the finest achievements of empirical research challenging established views interdisciplinary and up-to-date Contents Introduction I. The cognitive foundations of language 1. Embodiment 2. Attention and salience 3. Frequency and entrenchment 4. Categorization (without categories) 5. Abstraction, storage and naive discriminative learning 6. Construal 7. Metonymy 8. Metaphor 9. Representing Meaning 10. Blending in language and communication 11. Grammar and cooperative communication II. Overviews 12. Phonology 13. Lexical semantics 14. Usage-based construction grammar 15. Discourse 16. Historical linguistics 17. Variationist linguistics 18. First language acquisition 19. Second language acquisition 20. Poetics III. Central topics 21. Semantic typology 22. Polysemy 23. Space 24. Time 25. Motion 26. Fictive motion 27. Prototype effects in grammar 28. Argument structure constructions 29. Default nonliteral interpretations The case of negation as a low-salience marker 30. Tense, aspect and mood 31. Grammaticalization 32. Individual differences in grammatical knowledge 33. Signed languages 34. Emergentism Indexes Authors index Subject index