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Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon (Human Cognitive Processing)

By Klaus-Uwe Panther , Günter Radden (editors)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2011
ISBN
9027223815, 9789027223814, 9789027287021
LCC
P126 .M65 2011
Google Books ID
uiUyBblkkLAC
Open Library ID
OL25108787M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1955061 bytes)
Series
Human Cognitive Processing volume 27
Pages
315\315
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic system itself. The contributors to the present volume demonstrate how these language-independent factors motivate grammar and the lexicon in a variety of languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Japanese, and Korean. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in cognitive and functional linguistics.

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