Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction - Softcover

Evans, Vyvyan; Green, Melanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748618325 ISBN 13: 9780748618323

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Synopsis

An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field and sets in context recent developments within cognitive semantics (including primary metaphors, conceptual blending and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (including Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). While all topics are introduced in terms accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this work is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to serve as a reference work for scholars from linguistics and neighbouring disciplines who wish to gain a better understanding of cognitive linguistics. The book is divided into three parts (The cognitive linguistics enterprise; Cognitive semantics; and Cognitive approaches to grammar), and is therefore suitable for a range of different course types, both in terms of length and level, as well as in terms of focus. In addition to defining the field, the text also includes appropriate critical evaluation. Complementary and potentially competing approaches are explored both within the cognitive approach and beyond it. In particular, cognitive linguistics is compared and contrasted with formal approaches including Generative Grammar, formal approaches to semantics, and Relevance Theory.Features:*Exercises at the end of each chapter*Annotated reading list at the end of each chapter*Lively and accessible presentation *Full bibliography*Contains 200 diagrammatic illustrations

About this title

About the Authors

Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and communication and has taught at the University of Sussex, Brighton University and Bangor University in the UK.

Melanie Green is Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748618325
• ISBN 13: 9780748618323
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 848