Oxford Handbook Of Cognitive Linguistics, The

Description: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of cognitive linguistics, and covers its various subfields - theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive Linguistics and their background. The book starts with a set of chapters discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized as key concepts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set of chapters deals with Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, and Word Grammar, which, each in their own way, bring together the basic concepts into a particular theory of grammar and a specific model for the description of grammatical phenomena. Special attention is given to the interrelation between Cognitive and Construction Grammar. A third set of chapters compares Cognitive Linguistics with other forms of linguistic research (functional linguistics, autonomous linguistics, and the history of linguistics), thus giving a readers a better grip on the position of Cognitive Linguistics within the landscape of linguistics at large. The remaining chapters apply these basic notions to various more specific linguistic domains, illustrating how Cognitive Linguistics deals with the traditional linguistic subdomains (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, text and discourse), and demonstrating how it handles linguistic variation and change. Finally they consider its importance in the domain of Applied Linguistics, and look at interdisciplinary links with research fields such as philosophy and psychology. With a well-known cast of contributors from around the world, this reference work will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in (cognitive) linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology.

Review:
"The editors have brought together contributions from many of the world's leading cognitive linguists. The overviews that these scholars provide are authoritative, lucid, and highly informative, and, like all good surveys, are not mere summaries but also offer useful syntheses and critiques of the relevant research. [the Handbook] is unique in its depth and breadth of coverage, and is therefore destined to become a standard reference in the field." --Language

Contents: 1. INTRODUCING COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS - DIRK GEERAERTS AND HUBERT CUYCKENS ; 1. Basic Concepts ; 2. EMBODIMENT AND EXPERIENTIALISM - TIM ROHRER ; 3. CONSTRUAL AND PERSPECTIVIZATION - ARIE VERHAGEN ; 4. SCHEMATICITY - DAVID TUGGY ; 5. ENTRENCHMENT, SALIENCE, AND BASIC LEVELS - HANS-JORG SCHMID ; 6. POLYSEMY, PROTOTYPES, AND RADICAL CATEGORIES - BARBARA LEWANDOWSKA-TOMASZCZYK ; 7. FRAMES, IDEALIZED COGNITIVE MODELS, AND DOMAINS - ALAN CIENKI ; 8. METAPHOR - JOSEPH E. GRADY ; 9. IMAGE SCHEMAS - TODD OAKLEY ; 10 MOTONYMY - KLAUS-UWE PANTHER AND LINDA L. THORNBURG ; 11. ATTENTION PHENOMENA - LEONARD TALMY ; 12. FORCE DYNAMICS - WALTER DE MULDER ; 13. SPATIAL SEMANTICS - JORDAN ZLATEV ; 14. MENTAL SPACES - GILLES FAUCONNIER ; 15. CONEPTUAL INTEGRATION - MARK TURNER ; 16. ICONICITY - WILLY VAN LANGENDONCK ; 2. Models of Grammar ; 17. COGNITIVE GRAMMAR - RONALD W. LANGACKER ; 18. CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR - WILLIAM CROFT ; 19. WORD GRAMMAR - RICHARD HUDSON ; 3. Situating Cognitive Linguistics ; 20. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS - JAN NUYTS ; 21. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND AUTONOMOUS LINGUISTICS - JOHN R. TAYLOR ; 22. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS - BRIGITTE NERLICH AND DAVID D. CLARKE ; 4. Linguistic Structure and Language Use ; 23. PHONOLOGY - GEOFF NATHAN ; 24. INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY - LAURA JANDA ; 25. WORD-FORMATION - FRIEDRICH UNGERER ; 26. NOMIAL CLASSIFICATION - GUNTER SENFT ; 27. IDIOMS AND FORMULAIC LANGUAGE - RAYMOND W. GIBBS, JR. ; 28. RELATIONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS - SOTERIA SVOROU ; 29. CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND TRANSITIVITY - JOSE M. GARCIA-MIGUEL (HTTP://UVIGO.ACADEMIA.EDU/JOSEMGARCIAMIGUEL) ; 20. COMPLEMENTIZATION - MICHEL ACHARD ; 31. TENSE AND ASPECT - RONNY BOOGAART AND THEO JANSSEN ; 32. GRAMMATICAL VOICE IN COGNITIVE GRAMMAR - RICARDO MALDONADO ; 33. MODALITY IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS - TANJA MORTELMANS ; 34. PRONOMINAL ANAPHORA - KAREN VAN HOEK ; 35. DISCOURSE AND TEXT STRUCTURE - TED SANDERS AND WILBERT SPOOREN ; 5. Linguistic Variation and Change ; 36. DIACHRONIC LINGUISTICS - JOAN BYBEE ; 37. LEXICAL VARIATION AND CHANGE - STEFAN GRONDELAERS, DIRK SPEELMAN, AND DIRK GEERAERTS ; 38. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY - ERIC PEDERSON ; 39. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS - GARY B. PALMER ; 40. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY - JOHAN VAN DER AUWERA AND JAN NUYTS ; 41. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - MICHAEL TOMASELLO ; 42. SIGNED LANGUAGES - SHERMAN WILCOX ; 6. Applied and Interdisciplinary Perspectives ; 43. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS - MARTIN PUTZ (HTTPS://REGISTER.FACEBOOK.COM/R.PHP) ; 44. LEXICOGRAPHY - DIRK GEERAERTS ; 45. COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LITERARY STUDIES: STATE OF THE ART IN COGNITIVE POETICS - MARGARET H. FREEMAN ; 46. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND CULTURAL STUDIES - RENE DIRVEN, HANS-GEORG WOLF, AND FRANK POLZENHAGEN ; 47. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, IDEOLOGY, AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS - RENE DIRVEN, FRANK POLZENHAGEN, AND HANS-GEORG WOLF ; 48. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY - PETER HARDER ; 49. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE - CHRIS SINHA ; INDEX