Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-2381-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Human Cognitive Processing

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panther, Klaus-Uwe

Radden, Günter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie