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Cambridge University Press Linguistic Synesthesia
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Cambridge University Press Linguistic Synesthesia
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Cambridge University Press Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context
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Cambridge University Press Reflections on Psycholinguistic Theories
Book SynopsisIn a work that is part memoir, part monograph, Nigel Duffield offers a set of lyrical reflections on theories of Psycholinguistics, which is concerned with how speakers use the languages they control, as well as with how such control is acquired in the first place. Written for professionals and enthusiastic amateurs alike, this book offers a ''well-tempered'' examination of the conceptual and empirical foundations of the field. In developing his ideas, the author draws on thirty years of direct professional experience of psycholinguistic theory and practice, across various sub-disciplines, including theoretical linguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and philology. The author''s personal experience as a language learner - more importantly, as the father of three bilingual children - also plays a crucial role in shaping the discussion. Using examples from popular literature, song, poetry, and comedy, the work examines many of the foundational questions that divide researchers froTrade Review'This book is unique. Other books discuss the relationship between formal and experimental linguistics. This book does so through the lens of music, poetry, and personal experiences. This melding of art, personal experience, and science make the book an excellent read and a great learning experience.' Natasha Warner, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Both Sides, Now: 1. Breaking us in two; 2. Marr's Vision I; 3: Marr's Vision II; Part II: Six Different Ways; 4. (Case #1): 'Starry, starry night'; 5. (Case # 2): 'There's a word for it'; 6. (Case # 3): 'Running up that hill'; 7. (Case # 4): 'Me, myself, I'; 8. (Case # 5): 'Be my number two'…won't you?; 9. (Case # 6): 'Cwucial questions'; Part III. Say it ain't so, Joe: 10. A is for Abstraction (and Ambiguity); 11. B is for Arbitrariness; 12. C is for Competence~Performance, and Proficiency; 13. F is for Functions of Language; 14. G is for Grammar; 15. H is for Homogeneity; 16. I is for Internalism (I-language); 17. J is for Judgment; 18. N is for (Chomskyan) Nativism; 19. O is for Object of Study; 20. P is for Poverty of the Stimulus (Good Arguments); 21. R is for (Exophoric) Reference; 22. T is for Sentence; 23. V is for von Humboldt (Discrete Infinity); 24. Ω is for Love; Part IV. A Tale of Two Cities: 25. 'I ain't bovvered'; 26. 'Who did say that?'
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Information Age Publishing Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically
Book SynopsisPer Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of Linkoping, Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduate school in communication studies in Linkoping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories in linguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talk-in-interaction and institutional discourse. His more recent books include ""Approaching Dialogue"" (1998), ""The Written Language Bias in Linguistics"" (2005) and ""Dialogue in Focus Groups"" (2007, with I. Markova, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Introduction: Rethinking Dialogicality: Solidity of Theory Amidst of the Flow of Dialogues, Jaan Valsiner. Preface and Overview.; PART I: INTO THE WORLD OF DIALOGICAL CONCEPTS.; Chapter 1: Conceptual and Terminological Preliminaries: Dialogue, Dialogism, Dialogicality.; Chapter 2: Dialogism and Its Axiomatic Assumptions.; Chapter 3: Monologism.; Chapter 4: Situations And Situation-Transcending Practices.; PART II: SOCIAL MINDS: SELVES, OTHERS AND THE INTER-WORLD.; Chapter 5: Dialogue and The Other.; Chapter 6: The Dialogical Self.; Chapter 7: A Relational Interworld Beyond Individual Minds.; PART III: SENSE-MAKING: INTERACTIONS, COMMUNICATIVE PROJECTS, UTTERANCES AND TEXTS.; Chapter 8: Monological and Dialogical Practices.; Chapter 9: Social Interaction and Power.; Chapter 10: Meaning and Understanding.; Chapter 11: Signs and Representations As Dialogical Entities.; Chapter 12: Dynamics and Potentialities of Sense-Making: Developmental Aspects.; PART IV: LANGUAGING: EMBODIMENT AND SOCIAL EMBEDDING.; Chapter 13: Rethinking Language in Dialogical Terms.; Chapter 14: Dialogue and Grammar: Methods for Constructing Utterances.; Chapter 15: Dialogue and Lexicology: Meaning Potentials of Lexical Resources.; Chapter 16: Dialogue and Artefacts.; Chapter 17: Dialogue and The Brain.; PART V: DIALOGICAL THEORIES - CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES.; Chapter 18: Dialogism and The Scientific Enterprise.; Chapter 19: Monologism and Dialogism: Summary with Some Historical Flashbacks.; Chapter 20: Some Misinterpretations of Dialogism.; Chapter 21: Epilogue. References.
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The Choir Press Language Coaching In Action: Brain-friendly materials using Neurolanguage Coaching
Book SynopsisThe goal of language educators is to help their students learn language in the manner that is most efficient, effective, and enjoyable for them as individuals. Key to this book is the idea of cocreation – where the educator and student work together to come up with materials and methods that are suited to those means. Using techniques that follow neuroscientific research, using our knowledge of the science of learning, neuropsychology, and emotional intelligence is vital. Bringing back the joy of learning is one of the key aims of this book. Having a second language opens up the world to students, expanding their horizons and giving them a better understanding of others’ cultures. Learning a language, then, should be just as exciting and joyful. This book is full of brain friendly exercises and resources designed to help you connect with students and guide them along the path to language mastery, bringing you one step closer to delivering any grammatical area through neurolanguage coaching conversations using the PACT PQC coaching model. Language Coaching in Action will equip you with powerful coaching questions to imprint the rules and theory of language on students, creating those ‘aha’ moments when it all clicks together, bringing the big picture of grammar to learners.Trade ReviewLanguage Coaching in Action is an indispensable resource for anyone invested in the intersection of coaching and language teaching. The book not only challenges traditional teaching methodologies but also brings a fresh perspective by incorporating neuroscience-based techniques for effective language learning. Dimitrios Paprizos, Business English Coach for Finance ProfessionalsTable of Contents01 Overlap Of Neuroscience, Teaching And Coaching; 02 Spelling Rules; 03 Sentence Structure In English; 04 Quick Guide To Articles; 05 Uncountable Nouns (Brainstorm Categories With Coachee); 06 Countable And Uncountable Nouns/Some And Any; 07 Personal Pronouns; 08 Subject, Object & Possessive Pronouns & Possessive Adjectives; 09.Endings For Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs & Verbs; 10.Adjectives, Comparative And Superlative Endings; 11.Adjectives Ending In -Ing And -Ed; 12.Time Expressions With Different Tenses; 13.Linking Words In Families; 14.Question Words; 15.Polite Questions - Order Of Politeness; 16.Relative Pronouns; 17.Preposition Families; 18.Active Tense Overview; 19.Passive Tense Overview; 20.Which Tense Should I Choose?; 21.Trigger Words For Tenses; 22.Tense Builders; 23.Present Simple; 24.State Verbs Groups (Verbs Of “Being” Not “Action Verbs”); 25.State Verbs (Verbs Of “Being” And Not “Action Verbs”); 26.Present Simple Or Present Continuous; 27.Present Perfect; 28.Past Simple Or Present Perfect; 29.Irregular Verb Families ; 30.Future Tenses; 31.Conditionals As Mathematical Equations; 32.Reported Speech - Tense Jumps; 33.Verb + Verb In To Infinitive Or Verb + Verb Ending In Ing; 34.Ing Or To?; 35.Modal Verbs; 36.Obligations - Modal Verbs Of Obligation; 37.Phrasal Verb Families (Examples Of How To Create Groups); 38.Phrasal Verb Prepositions
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De Gruyter Talk as Therapy: Psychotherapy in a Linguistic Perspective
Book SynopsisThe book is an empirical study of naturally occurring talk between psychotherapist and clients experiencing various anxieties and traumas that most of us recognize and can relate to. By relying on contemporary theories about sequential, situated discourse as well as drawing on “praxis” literature, it aims to investigate how psychotherapy as practice is contextually and interactionally accomplished. By scrutinizing patterns of language use, which reflect the core norms of the speech event of psychotherapy, it offers a unique look into the therapeutic dialogue at the micro level. The book presents a host of practical guidelines as to how to conduct ethnographic fieldwork at the (inter)professional research site in order to produce practically relevant findings. It also addresses the infiltration of therapeutic norms and strategies into new social contexts. Talk as Therapy is about disclosing one’s (usually) dysphoric experiences, clarifying and exploring them in the interactional here-and-now as well as focusing on their emotional aspects in the safety of the relationship with the therapist.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Bilingualism and Cognitive Control
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking monograph makes a multidisciplinary case for bilingualism as a possible enhancer of executive function, particularly cognitive control. Its central focus is the cognitive operations of the bilingual brain in processing two languages and whether they afford the brain a greater edge on neuroplasticity—in short, a cognitive advantage. Major issues and controversies in the debate are analyzed from cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistic, and integrative perspectives, with attention paid to commonly and rarely studied domains at work in bilingual processing. The author also pinpoints future areas for improved research such as recognizing the diversity of bilingualism, not simply in languages spoken but also in social context, as seen among immigrants and refugees. Included in the coverage: The evolution of bilingualism. What goes on in a bilingual mind? The core cognitive mechanisms. Cognitive advantage of bilingualism and its criticisms. Neuroscience of bilingualism. Bilingualism, context, and control. Attention, vision, and control in bilinguals. With its cogent takes on ongoing questions and emerging issues, Bilingualism and Cognitive Control is of immediate interest to bilingual researchers and practitioners interested in understanding the behavioral aspects and neurobiology of bilingualism and the dynamic character of the bilingual/multilingual/second language learner’s mind, as well as the growing number of advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in the psychology/psycholinguistics of bilingualism, bilingual cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction This chapter will introduce the main theoretical and conceptual structure of the book and will offer a summary of the different chapters that follow. This chapter will introduce the reader to the main theme of the book and the various issues that are addressed. This chapter will also present the main theory of the book which will be fleshed out later. Chapter 2. How the brain becomes bilingual: Evolution, adaptation and sustenance This chapter will deal with the evolution of bilingualism in human language use from anthropological, neuroscience and cognitive perspectives. The chapter will show that during evolution and migration the brain adopted bilingualism for economic, cultural as well as cognitive reasons. The chapter will also discuss theories and facts related to language evolution from an evolutionary psychological perspective. The main purpose will be to show that current links between the practice of widespread bilingualism in different cultures and its cognitive consequences on the brain functions have evolutionary advantages. Chapter 3. The psycholinguistic basis of bilingualism This chapter will flesh out the various important psycholinguistic facts pertaining to bilingual language use to show that the extent and duration of language use leads to noticeable changes in other cognitive abilities. Data from both children and adult bilingualism will be discussed pertaining to the links between language switching and cognitive underpinnings. Chapter 4. The multimodal basis of bilingual cognition Recent evidence suggests that both linguistic and non-linguistic information interact dynamically to produce cognition. This chapter will present and discuss findings that indicate that bilinguals use both verbal and visual cues to process languages and participate in communication. Chapter 5. Action control and cognition: The role of bilingualism This chapter will defend the thesis that language use is primarily a work of cognitive action that humans constantly exert on their environment to produce successful cognition. For bilinguals, this is more complex since they have to tackle duality often and reduce conflict. The chapter will discuss important theories of attention and executive control that have influenced discussion on bilingualism and cognitive control. The chapter will approach the cognitive architecture of bilingual language use from the point of theories of action control. Both behavioral and neuroscience data will be presented. The chapter will show that both the psychological and psycholinguistic nature of action control influences the executive control system of the brain significantly and which in turn is manifested differently for monolinguals and bilinguals Chapter 6: Tasks, theories, interpretations and controversies: The case of bilingual cognitive advantage This chapter will offer a comprehensive account of different current theories and proposals on the possible influences of bilingualism on cognitive control. The chapter will discuss different tasks and methods that researchers have used to study both the psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of bilingual language control and controversies. The chapter will show that observed advantages or null results on the issue of bilingual cognitive advantage is largely task dependent and is influenced by factors pertaining to individual cognitive profiles. This chapter will also deal with the various sides of the current controversies that relate to replication issues and issues related to factors that have not been controlled by researchers. The chapter will look into the issue of linguistic and cultural differences between bilingual samples that have been compared. Chapter 7: The linguistic and non-linguistic interface in bilinguals The chapter will try to show that psycholinguistic findings on bilingual language use itself show different aspects of cognitive control mechanisms. The chapter will discuss different important models of bilingual language processing and how these models assume cognitive control. Much current research shows that bilingual parallel language activation is constrained by inhibitory control and monitoring. The chapter will provide evidence for the theory that bilingual language processing strategies themselves demonstrate the complex nature of attention control independent of their performance on non-linguistic attention and executive control tasks. Chapter 8: The neural basis of bilingual executive control The chapter will show that although there have been some replication failures of behavioral tasks that map bilingual cognitive control, much cognitive neuroscience work with different neuroimaging tools show that bilingual brains control action and attention differently. The chapter will present such neural evidence with regard to different tasks used and different bilingual population to demonstrate how the bilingual brain handles duality. Chapter 9: Bilingual cognitive control: Embodiment and contextual influences Since bilingual communication is embedded within a linguistic and cultural environment, contextual influences modulate how bilinguals manage their two languages which in turn influence executive control. This chapter will explore more of this aspect and will show that depending on the socio-linguistic and cultural environment executive control is modulated in bilinguals. Current analysis of bilingual cognitive advantage does not consider interpretations from embodied cognition as far as contextual influences matter. Chapter 10: Conclusion This final chapter will summarize the themes discussed in all the other chapters and will attempt to provide a holistic overview of current knowledge and future research.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Analysing Digital Interaction
Book SynopsisThis book investigates interaction-focused scholarship on online communication. It focuses on a broad range of online contexts including social media, dating apps, online comments, instant messaging and video-mediated interaction. Bringing together experts from a variety of scholarly backgrounds, chapters demonstrate how different microanalytic methods, including conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis and discursive psychology, can be applied to online communication. The book also goes on to address ethical, methodological and theoretical issues of analysing online social interaction. With the explosion of the use of online platforms for everyday and institutional interaction, this book is a timely collection which explores the current state of the field, and considers future directions for microanalysis of online communication. Trade Review“Analysing Digital Interaction is an extremely timely contribution representing an important statement on how methods from CA, MCA, and DP can inform our understanding of the rapid social socio-technological that we are currently experiencing. … Flexible and sensitive analytic methods such as those discussed here are capable of rendering distinctive views of these interactional nuances and they are critical to help us understand these rapidly evolving forms of life.” (Will Gibson, Symbolic Interaction, March 14, 2023)Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Microanalysis of Digital Interaction; Joanne Meredith, David Giles and Wyke J. P. Stommel.- 2. Ethical Challenges in Collecting and Analysing Online Interactions; Hannah Ditchfield.- 3. Context, History, and Twitter Data: Some Methodological Reflections; David Giles.- 4. “It’s time to shift this blog a bit”: Categorial Negotiation as a Local and Cumulative Accomplishment; Linda Walz.- 5. The Radio Host Cried, the Facebook Users Identified: Crying as an Action Linked to ‘good people’; Elisabeth Muth Andersen.- 6. “On that note I’m signing out”: Endings of Threads in Online Newspaper Comments; Joanne Meredith.- 7. Similarities and Differences Across Settings: The Case of Turn Continuations in Instant Messaging; Anna Spagnolli, Sonia Genovese, Mattia Mori.- 8. The Spectre of ‘Ghosting’ and the Sequential Organization of Post-match Tinder Chat Conversations; Christian Licoppe.- 9. Participation of Companions in Video-Mediated Medical Consultations: A Microanalysis; Wyke Stommel and Martijn W. J. Stommel.- 10. Conclusion: Future Directions in Analysing Digital Interaction; Janet Smithson.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG When Words Betray Us: Language, the Brain, and
Book SynopsisThis book presents a journey into how language is put together for speaking and understanding and how it can come apart when there is injury to the brain. The goal is to provide a window into language and the brain through the lens of aphasia, a speech and language disorder resulting from brain injury in adults. This book answers the question of how the brain analyzes the pieces of language, its sounds, words, meaning, and ultimately puts them together into a unitary whole. While its major focus is on clinical, experimental, and theoretical approaches to language deficits in aphasia, it integrates this work with recent technological advances in neuroimaging to provide a state-of-the-art portrayal of language and brain function. It also shows how current computational models that share properties with those of neurons allow for a common framework to explain how the brain processes language and its parts and how it breaks down according to these principles. Consideration will also be given to whether language can recover after brain injury or when areas of the brain recruited for speaking, understanding, or reading are deprived of input, as seen with people who are deaf or blind. No prior knowledge of linguistics, psychology, computer science, or neuroscience is assumed. The informal style of this book makes it accessible to anyone with an interest in the complexity and beauty of language and who wants to understand how it is put together, how it comes apart, and how language maps on to the brain.Table of ContentsChapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Getting Started.- Chapter3: The sounds of language.- Chapter4: The words of language: the mental lexicon.- Chapter5: What does it mean: semantics.- Chapter6: Putting words together: Syntax.- Chapter7: Why two hemispheres: the role of the right hemisphere in language.- Chapter8: The plastic brain.- Chapter9: Wrapping up.
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De Gruyter The Expression of Possession
Book SynopsisHuman thought and action is fundamentally shaped by a small set of cognitive categories, such as time, space, causality, or possession. It is not surprising, therefore, that all natural languages have developed many devices to express these categories. Temporality, for example, is reflected in the lexical meaning of verbs, in grammatical marking of tense and aspect, in time adverbials, in special particles, and in the application of discourse principles. Many of these devices have been the subject of intensive research across languages; but as a rule, this research focuses on particular aspects, it does not look at the expression of such a category as a whole, which is precisely the aim of the present series. The short volumes bring together what is known about the expression of a particular category in human language.
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De Gruyter Historical Cognitive Linguistics
Book SynopsisThe volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of particular concepts and extensions of these prototypes, and secondly, those which relate to conceptual networks, for example via metaphor or metonymy. More specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions. In presenting a wide range of current work of this kind, the volume demonstrates the value of cross-fertilization between historical and cognitive linguistics, and is intended to open the way for further related research. The included papers are of particular relevance to those working in metaphor theory and syntactic / semantic change within Cognitive Linguistics, but will also be of interest to other historical linguists and those studying cognitive semantics and metaphor from a synchronic viewpoint.
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De Gruyter Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning – perspectives that we conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives.
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De Gruyter Gesture in Language: Development Across the
Book SynopsisThrough constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children’s language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions containing multiple cross-modal elements subtly used together for communicative functions. Sensorimotor schemas provide the "grounding" of language in experience and lead to children’s access to the symbolic function. With the emergence of vocal or signed productions, gestures do not disappear but remain functional and diversify in form and function as children become skilled adult multimodal conversationalists. This volume examines the role of gesture over the human lifespan in its complex interaction with speech and sign. Gesture is explored in the different stages before, during, and after language has fully developed and a special focus is placed on the role of gesture in language learning and cognitive development. Specific chapters are devoted to the use of gesture in atypical populations. CONTENTS Contributors Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow1 Introduction to Gesture in Language Part I: An Emblematic Gesture: Pointing Kensy Cooperrider and Kate Mesh2 Pointing in Gesture and Sign Aliyah Morgenstern3 Early Pointing Gestures Part II: Gesture Before Speech Meredith L. Rowe, Ran Wei, and Virginia C. Salo4 Early Gesture Predicts Later Language Development Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, and Virginia Volterra5 Interaction Among Modalities and Within Development Part III: Gesture With Speech During Language Learning Eve V. Clark and Barbara F. Kelly6 Constructing a System of Communication With Gestures and Words Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel7 Embodying Language Complexity: Co-Speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4 Casey Hall, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow8 Gesture Can Facilitate Children’s Learning and Generalization of Verbs Part IV: Gesture After Speech Is Mastered Jean-Marc Colletta9 On the Codevelopment of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in Children Susan Wagner Cook10 Understanding How Gestures Are Produced and Perceived Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, and Seda AkbIyık11 Gesture in the Aging Brain Part V: Gesture With More Than One Language Elena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson12 Gesture in Bilingual Language Acquisition Marianne Gullberg13 Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users’ Speech and Gestures Gale Stam and Marion Tellier14 Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-MeadowAfterword: Gesture as Part of Language or Partner to Language Across the Lifespan IndexAbout the Editors
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De Gruyter Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics: Methods and Insights
Book Synopsis Contemporary data analytics involves extracting insights from data and translating them into action. With its turn towards empirical methods and convergent data sources, cognitive linguistics is a fertile context for data analytics. There are key differences between data analytics and statistical analysis as typically conceived. Though the former requires the latter, it emphasizes the role of domain-specific knowledge. Statistical analysis also tends to be associated with preconceived hypotheses and controlled data. Data analytics, on the other hand, can help explore unstructured datasets and inspire emergent questions. This volume addresses two key aspects in data analytics for cognitive linguistic work. Firstly, it elaborates the bottom-up guiding role of data analytics in the research trajectory, and how it helps to formulate and refine questions. Secondly, it shows how data analytics can suggest concrete courses of research-based action, which is crucial for cognitive linguistics to be truly applied. The papers in this volume impart various data analytic methods and report empirical studies across different areas of research and application. They aim to benefit new and experienced researchers alike.
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De Gruyter From Lying to Perjury: Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods
Book SynopsisThis volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie under oath amounts to perjury—but what are the relevant criteria? Taxonomies of falsehood based on illocutionary force, utterance context and speakers’ intentions have been debated by linguists, moral philosophers, social psychologists and cognitive scientists. Legal scholars have examined the boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies. The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-truth, perjury, and verbal manipulation, including puffery, bluffing, and bullshit. The papers in this collection address conceptual and ethical aspects of lying vs. misleading and the correlation of this opposition with the Gricean pragmatic distinction between what is said and what is implicated. The questions of truth and lies addressed in this volume have long engaged the attention of scholars in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, organizational research, and the law, and researchers from all these fields will find this book of interest.
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Waxmann Verlag GmbH Zweitspracherwerb im Kindergarten aus der CommunityofPracticePerspektive Ressourcen Praktiken Positionierungen
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Jakub Tencl Perception from a multicultural perspective
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Brill Experiential Constructions in Latin
Book SynopsisThis volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-linguistic, experimental, and statistical applications
Book SynopsisThis series of lectures provides an overview of the author's work on quantitative applications in cognitive linguistics by discussing a wide range of studies involving corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work. After a discussion of how corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics relate to each other, the author discusses empirical and statistical studies of a wide variety of phenomena including morphophonology (morphological blends and alliteration effects), corpus-based cognitive semantics, frequency and association at the syntax-lexis interface. The book concludes with chapters exemplifying the role that bottom-up approaches can take, the role of statistical methods more generally, and the role of converging evidence from corpus and experimental data.The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013. In the e-book version all handouts have been made available at the back. All audio of the lectures as well as the handouts are available for free, in Open Access, here.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages
Book SynopsisIn Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages Sherman Wilcox suggests that rather than abstracting away from the material substance of language, linguists can discover the deep connections between signed and spoken languages by taking an embodied view. This embodied solution reveals the patterns and principles that unite languages across modalities. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Wilcox explores such issues as the how to apply cognitive grammar to the study of signed languages, the pervasive conceptual iconicity present throughout the lexicon and grammar of signed languages, the relation of language and gesture, the grammaticization of signs, the significance of motion for understanding language as a dynamic system, and the integration of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive linguistics.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Grammar in the Mind
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a synthesis of cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language acquistion, language processing, individual differences in linguistic knowledge, and on the role of multi-word chunks and low-level schemas in language production and comprehension. It highlights the tension between “linguists’ grammars”, which are strongly influenced by principles such as economy and elegance, and “speakers’ grammars”, which are often messy, less than fully general, and sometimes inconsistent, and argues that cognitive linguistics is an empirical science which combines study of real usage events and experiments which rigorously test specific hypotheses.
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Brill Pragmatics, Truth and Underspecification: Towards an Atlas of Meaning
Book SynopsisThe concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and are modelled with semantic values of various kinds; some aspects of meaning can be found in communicative processes and are modelled with pragmatic inferences of one sort or another. One hypothesis of great heuristic utility concerns the relationship that is assumed between the semantic and the pragmatic. This collection of especially commissioned papers examines current thinking on the plausible nature of the semantic, the possible character of the pragmatic and the mechanics of their intersection.Table of ContentsAn Underspecified Preface Ken Turner and Larry Horn Part 1 On the Landscape of Negation 1 An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate Change Larry Horn 2 Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg Raising Chris Collins and Paul Postal 3 Presuppositions, Negation, and Existence Barbara Abbott 4 More Ado about nothing: On the Typology of Negative Indefinites Johan van der Auwera and Lauren van Alsenoy Part 2 On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape 5 Distinguishing Ambiguity from Underspecificity Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore 6 Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in Context Michiel Leezenberg 7 A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of Scales Jerrold Sadock 8 Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic David Braun Part 3 On Grammar, Inference, and Truth 9 Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann 10 Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of Reasoning Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas 11 A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore’s Paradox Jack Woods 12 Remarks on Davidson’s Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of Meaning Ken Turner Index
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Brill The Sequential Imperative: General Cognitive Principles and the Structure of Behaviour
Book SynopsisIn The Sequential Imperative William Edmondson explains how deep study of linguistics – from phonetics to pragmatics – can be the basis for understanding the organization of behaviour in any organism with a brain. The work demonstrates that Cognitive Science needs to be anchored in a linguistic setting. Only then can Cognitive Scientists reach out to reconsider the nature of consciousness and to appreciate the functionality of all brains. The core functionality of the brain – any brain, any species, any time – is delivery and management of the unavoidable bi-directional transformation between brain states and activity – the Sequential Imperative. Making it all work requires some general cognitive principles and close attention to detail. The book sets out the case in broad terms but also incorporates significant detail where necessary.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: The Sequential Imperative and the Functional Specification of the Brain Introduction to Part 1 1 The Sequential Imperative – I 2 The Sequential Imperative – II 3 General Cognitive Principles Part 2: Serving the Sequential Imperative Introduction to Part 2 4 Structure in Language 5 Non-linear Phonology and Beyond 6 Building a Model Part 3: Behaviour and Evolution – on and off Planet Introduction to Part 3 7 Management of the Sequential Imperative 8 Issues in Evolution and Language 9 Language and Consciousness: What is it like to be an ETI? Afterword References Index
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Brill Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind: Cultural, Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives in Cognitive Linguistics
Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition
Book SynopsisIn her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the semantics of nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early language acquisition. Bowerman also covers the learning of argument structure and expressions of end-state, with special attention to the adult speech that guides children, and hence also the role of typology in acquisition; how cross-linguistic variation affects, for example, how speakers represent ‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the relation of the Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the semantics of languages. Bowerman’s over-riding concern throughout is with how children come to master the first language being spoken to them by their parents and caregivers.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language
Book SynopsisIn Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne explores verb meaning. He discusses theories of events and how a network model of language-in-the-mind should be theorized; what the lexicon is; how to probe word meaning; evidence for structure in word meaning; polysemy; the lexical semantics of causation; a type hierarchy of events; and event types cross-linguistically. He also looks at the relationship between different classes of events or event types and aktionsarten; transitivity alternations and argument linking. Gisborne argues that the social and cognitive embedding of language, requires a view of linguistic structure as a network where even the analysis of verb meaning can require an understanding of the role of speaker and hearer.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning
Book SynopsisAs we think and talk, rich arrays of mental spaces and connections between them are constructed unconsciously. Conceptual integration of mental spaces leads to new meaning, global insight, and compressions useful for memory and creativity. A powerful aspect of conceptual integration networks is the dynamic emergence of novel structure in all areas of human life (science, religion, art, ...). The emergence of complex metaphors creates our conceptualization of time. The same operations play a role in material culture generally. Technology evolves to produce cultural human artefacts such as watches, gauges, compasses, airplane cockpit displays, with structure specifically designed to match conceptual inputs and integrate with them into stable blended frames of perception and action that can be memorized, learned by new generations, and thus culturally transmitted.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science
Book SynopsisTen Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science details the relationship between form and meaning in language, especially at the systematic level of morphology. The role of metaphor and metonymy in elaborating meaning are investigated, as well as the structuring of semantics in terms of prototypes and radial categories. Implications for cultural studies and pedagogical applications are explored. The bulk of examples and data are drawn from the Slavic languages.Table of ContentsContents Note on Supplementary Material Preface About the Author 1 From Cognitive Linguistics to Cultural Linguistics: How Cognitive Categories Reflect Culture 2 Conceptual Overlap and the Illusion of Semantic Emptiness 3 Metaphor in Grammar: Conceptualization of Time 4 Metonymy in Grammar: Word Formation 5 Constructional Profiles: What Constructions Tell Us about the Meanings of Words 6 Grammatical Profiles: What Inflectional Forms Tell Us about Lexicon and Grammar 7 Semantic Maps: Do They Reveal a Universal Underlying Conceptual Space? 8 Pedagogical Applications of Research into Embodied Grammar 9 Linguistic Concepts as Prototype-Based Categories: Reexamining Allomorphy 10 The Paradigm as a Radial Category About the Series Editor Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers
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Brill Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
Book SynopsisIn Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change. Croft begins from construction grammar, a theory of syntax in which all syntactic structures are a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are posited as basic; syntactic categories are defined by constructions. The internal structure of constructions directly link elements of constructions to the meanings they express, Constructions across languages can be situated in a space of syntactic variation. Grammar emerges from the verbalization of experience. Constructions occur in a probability distribution across the conceptual space of meanings. These probability distributions evolve, leading to grammatical change in language, modeled in an evolutionary framework.
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Brill Questions in Discourse: Volume 1: Semantics
Book SynopsisThe volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 1 Semantics contains a comprehensive overview of the semantic analysis of questions and their role in structuring discourse, next to a series of in-depth contributions on individual aspects of question meanings. The expert contributions offer novel accounts of semantic phenomena such as negation and biased questions, question embedding, exhaustivity, disjunction in alternative questions, and superlative quantification particles in questions. Some accounts are modelled in the framework of inquisitive semantics, whereas others employ alternative semantics, and yet others point to the discourse-structuring potential of marked questions. All contributions are easily accessible against the background of the general introduction. Together, they give an excellent overview of current trends in question semantics.Table of Contents1 Introduction Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea 2 Questions in Discourse: an Overview Edgar Onea, Malte Zimmermann 3 Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English Scott AnderBois 4 The *whether Puzzle Floris Roelofsen, Michele Herbstritt and Maria Aloni 5 The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted Mary Byram Washburn, Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta 6 Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic Lauren Winans 7 Superlative Quantification Particles Henk Zeevat Index
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Brill Questions in Discourse: Volume 2: Pragmatics
Book SynopsisThe volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. The in-depth studies discuss the effects of focus, questions and givenness in unalternative semantics, as well as the role of scalar particles, question-answer pairs and prosody from the perspective of Questions under Discussion. Two contributions compare the discourse-structuring potential of Questions under Discussion and rhetorical relations, whereas another adds a perspective from inquisitive semantics. Some contributions also look at understudied languages. Together, the contributions allow for a better understanding of question-related pragmatic and discourse-semantic phenomena, and they offer new perspectives on the structure of texts and discourses.Table of Contents1 Introduction Malte Zimmermann, Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea 2 Focus, Questions and Givenness Daniel Büring 3 The Scalar Particle har’i in Ngamo (West Chadic) Mira Grubic 4 Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Languages Annika Herrmann, Sina Proske and Elisabeth Volk 5 Inferring Meaning from Indirect Answers to Polar Questions: the Contribution of the Rise-Fall-Rise Contour Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser 6 Constructing QUD Trees Arndt Riester 7 Underneath Rhetorical Relations: the Case of Result Edgar Onea 8 Two Alternatives for Disjunction: an Inquisitive Reconciliation Floris Roelofsen Index
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Brill Spelling and Writing Words: Theoretical and Methodological Advances
Book SynopsisSpelling and Writing Words: Theoretical and Methodological Advances provides a set of contributions about how individuals write words. Understanding word production is of major importance as it allows understanding how words -the basic elements of written language- are stored in the writers’ brain and how do writers select the spelling of a word. < The theoretical chapters address hot topics in the field such as the role of phonology in writing, bilingualism, language disorders, orthographic acquisition, and the influence of handwriting on reading. The methodological chapters address individual differences, how to measure handwriting performance in different handwriting styles, and neuroscientific approaches. The concluding chapters explore the future of written word production research.
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Brill Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The 'Head'
Book SynopsisEmbodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’ edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk adds to linguistic studies on embodied cognition and conceptualization while focusing on one body part term from a comparative perspective. The ‘head’ is investigated as a source domain for extending multiple concepts in various target domains accessed via metaphor or metonymy. The contributions in the volume provide comparative and case studies based on analyses of the first-hand data from languages representing all continents and diversified linguistic groups, including endangered languages of Africa, Australia and Americas. The book offers new reflections on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change. The findings contribute to general research on metaphor, metonymy, and polysemy within a paradigm of cognitive linguistics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Embodied Lexicon and the ‘Head’ Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 1 Comparative Studies 1 ‘Head(s)’ in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese Aleksandra Wilkos and Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho 2 On the Lexeme ‘Head’ in Zamucoan Luca Ciucci 3 What the Grammaticalization of ‘Head’ Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language? Zygmunt Frajzyngier 4 ‘Head’ in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo Helma Pasch 5 “Head” as a Link of Embodiment in Chinese Yongxian Luo 6 From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body Parts Kelsie Pattillo 7 Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part ‘Head’ in Mental and Social Domains Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 2 Case Studies 8 The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal Representation Izabela Will 9 Semantics of Amharic ras ‘Head’ Abinet Sime 10 ‘Head’ Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and Correlations Filiz Mutlu, Aysel Kapan, Ali Yagiz Sen, Hilal Yıldırım-Gündoğdu and Aslı Göksel 11 ‘He Cracked His Head Feverishly’: Conceptualizations of HEAD and THINKING in Hungarian Judit Baranyiné Kóczy 12 Semantic Extensions of tatini ‘Her Head’ and tati ‘His Head’ in Deni (Arawá) Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho 13 Wulaya ‘Head’ in Yanyuwa Alice Gaby and John Bradley Index
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Brill Observing Writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting
Book SynopsisObserving writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting is a timely volume appearing twelve years after the Studies in Writing volume Computer Keystroke Logging and Writing (Sullivan & Lindgren, 2006). The 2006 volume provided the reader with a fundamental account of keystroke logging, a methodology in which a piece of software records every keystroke, cursor and mouse movement a writer undertakes during a writing session. This new volume highlights current theoretical and applied research questions in keystroke logging and handwriting research that observes writing. In this volume, contributors from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, modern languages, and education, present their research that considers the cognitive and socio-cultural complexities of writing texts in academic and professional settings.Trade Review"Overall, these concluding notes, as well as the book as a whole, show great potential of development for what has proven to be a fast-growing, exciting area of research." -Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, in Written Language and Literacy, Volume 22:1 (2019)Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Notes on Contributors Researching Writing with Observational Logging Tools from 2006 to the Present Eva Lindgren, Yvonne Knospe and Kirk PH Sullivan 1 Combining Keystroke Logging with Other Methods: towards an Experimental Environment for Writing Process Research Åsa Wengelin, Johan Frid, Roger Johansson and Victoria Johansson 2 Using HandSpy to Study Writing in Real Time: a Comparison between Low- and High-Quality Texts in Grade 2 Rui A. Alves, José Paulo Leal and Teresa Limpo 3 Analysing Keystroke Logging Data from a Linguistic Perspective Mariëlle Leijten, Eric Van Horenbeeck and Luuk Van Waes 4 Writing and Rewriting: the Coloured Numerical Visualization of Keystroke Logging Hélène-Sarah Bécotte, Gilles Caporossi, Alain Hertz and Christophe Leblay 5 Empowering Automated Writing Evaluation with Keystroke Logging Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen 6 Progression Analysis: Working with Large Data Corpora in Field Research on Writing Daniel Perrin 7 A Tutorial Introduction to Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) for Keystroke Logging Data Sebastian Wallot and Joachim Grabowski 8 Fluency in L1 and FL Writing: an Analysis of Planning, Essay Writing and Final Revision Esther Odilia Breuer 9 The Effect of L2 Proficiency Level on Composing Processes of EFL Learners: Data from Keystroke Loggings, Think Alouds and Questionnaires Gulay Tiryakioglu, Elke Peters and Lieven Verschaffel 10 Metaphorical Language in Second Language Learners’ Texts: Additional Baggage of the Writing Journey? Ha Hoang 11 Observing Writing and Website Browsing: Swedish Students Write L3 German Yvonne Knospe, Kirk PH Sullivan, Anita Malmqvist and Ingela Valfridsson 12 Using Keystroke Logging to Capture the Impact of Cognitive Complexity and Typing Fluency on Written Language Production Michelle Aldridge and Lise Fontaine 13 Aligning Keystrokes with Cognitive Processes in Writing David Galbraith and Veerle M. Baaijen 14 Anticipation of Audience during Writing Markus Linnemann 15 Revising at the Leading Edge: Shaping Ideas or Clearing up Noise Eva Lindgren, Asbjørg Westum, Hanna Outakoski and Kirk PH Sullivan Coda Sven Strömqvist Index Author Index
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Brill Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R: Applications for Usage-Based and Psycholinguistic Research
Book SynopsisIn this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the corpus linguistics in general, its most important methodological tools, its statistical nature, and the relation of all these topics to past and current usage-based theorizing. Central notions discussed in detail include frequency, dispersion, context, and others in a variety of applications and case studies; four practice sessions offer short introductions of how to compute various corpus statistics with the open source programming language and environment R.Table of ContentsNote on Supplementary Material Preface by the Series Editor Preface by the Author About the Author 1 Corpus Linguistics: the (Methods of the) Field and Its Relation to Cognitive Linguistics 2 On—and/or against—Frequencies 3 Frequency: Practice with R 4 On Recency and Dispersion 5 Dispersion: Practice with R 6 On Association 7 Association: Practice with R 8 On Context 9 Concordance, Surprisal, Entropy: Practice with R 10 Corpus-Linguistic Applications in Cognitive/Usage-Based Explorations of Learner Language References About the Series Editor Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers
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Brill Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics
Book SynopsisIn these lectures, Arie Verhagen presents a version of cognitive linguistics that adheres to both the generalization and cognitive commitments that characterized the field from the start, and a biological commitment: understanding language as adaptive behavior of (human) organisms in the niche(s) that they inhabit. Drawing on the model of biological explanation (“Tinbergen’s four why’s”), Verhagen shows how proximate (individual level) and ultimate (population level) explanations apply to several features of language, shedding new light on basic notions like conventionality and entrenchment, norms/rules and habits, etc., and their causal connections. Topics include the relation between language, culture, and thinking, the role of language in social cognition and narrative, the evolution of sound structure and grammar, semantic change, and more.Table of Contents
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Brill Passives Cross-Linguistically: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
Book SynopsisThe volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provides analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. In addition to the theoretical contributions, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from psycholinguistic perspectives.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Akemi Matsuya and Kleanthes K. Grohmann 1 Long-Distance Passives by Structure Removal Gereon Müller 2 On Passive and Perfect Participles Peter Hallman 3 On Deontic Passives Eva-Maria Remberger 4 Indirect Object Want-Passives in Southern Italy Adam Ledgeway 5 Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan Isabel Crespí 6 Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and “Low Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek Laura Grestenberger 7 Non-active Voices in South Asian Languages Pritha Chandra, Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo 8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity Alternation Mohamed Naji 9 Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of Passives Akemi Matsuya 10 The Source of Passive Sentence Difficulty: Task Effects and Predicate Semantics, Not Argument Order Caterina L. Paolazzi, Nino Grillo and Andrea Santi 11 Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammar: The View from Greek Reflexive Verbs Arhonto Terzi 12 The Mirage of “Impaired Passives” and the Locus Preservation Hypothesis Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros and Evelina Leivada Index
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Brill Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling: Between Grammar and Language-Based Inferencing
Book SynopsisThese lectures deal with the role of cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. To make meaning people use a small set of principles which they apply to different types of conceptual characterizations. This yields predictable meaning effects, which, when stably associated with specific grammatical patterns, result in constructions or fixed form-meaning parings. This means that constructional meaning can be described on the basis of the same principles that people use to make inferences. This way of looking at pragmatics and grammar through cognition allows us to relate a broad range of pragmatic and grammatical phenomena, among them argument-structure characterizations, implicational, illocutionary, and discourse structure, and such figures of speech as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.
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Brill Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar
Book SynopsisIn this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.
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