How Words Mean: Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models, and Meaning Construction

Vyvyan Evans

ISBN 10: 0199234671 / ISBN 13: 9780199234677

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Words Mean: Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models, and Meaning Construction
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199234671
• ISBN 13: 9780199234677
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Presents a revised theory of the role of words in language understanding

About the Author

Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University. He was previously Professor of Cognitive Linguistics at the University of Brighton and has also taught at the University of Sussex, Georgetown University, and the University of Florida. His published work includes A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics (2007); with Benjamin Bergen and Jörg Zinken The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (2007); with Melanie Green, Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction (2006); The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition (2004); with Andrea Tyler, The Semantics of English Prepositions (2003); and articles in numerous venues including Journal of Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Language.