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Motivation in Language: Studies in Honor of Günter Radden

By Gunter Radden

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Pub Co
Year
2003
ISBN
9027247552, 9789027247551, 1588114260, 9781588114266
LCC
P26.R24 M68 2003
Google Books ID
1dP4MFOXls0C
Open Library ID
OL22557213M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19985969 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 243
Pages
431\431
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, "Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?" The greater part of the papers (Sections 1-3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between form and meaning play a role. As such, the contributions in Section 1 examine selected aspects of motivation in the continuum between lexicon and grammar; the contributions in Section 2 study the factors underlying the range of (semantic) variants that attach to a particular lexical item; and papers in Section 3 look at motivating factors in linguistic items situated in and conceptualizing the socio-cultural domain. A smaller set of papers in Section 4 point to the role which learner motivation and attitudinal motivation may play in applied linguistics domains.

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