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Conceptual and discourse factors in linguistic structure / edited by Alan Cienki, Barbara J. Luka, Michael B. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference (4th : 1998 : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Semantics--Congresses.
- Semantics.
- Cognitive grammar--Congresses.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Functionalism (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Language acquisition--Congresses.
- Language acquisition.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 276 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, [2001]
- Summary:
- What can we learn about the human mind by studying language? Predominant approaches in linguistics use theoretical assumptions about the formal nature of grammar to answer this question. But such approaches are restricted to unapplied models of language, not how language functions in actual speech situations -- and as a result, the strength of their claims about the workings of the human mind is limited.
- This book aims to overcome those limitations by putting emphasis on data from naturally occurring language usage. The cognitive and functional arguments made here start from psychologically realistic principles and arrive at perspectives of linguistics that unveil mechanisms of the mind, based on how language is actually used. By incorporating perspectives from both cognitive and functional frameworks, this volume focuses on the motivations for linguistic patterning in human social and cognitive experience, and on the dynamic properties of language construal, use, and development. Among the main research avenues represented are first language acquisition, metaphor, language processing and discourse, and conceptual structure and grammar.
- Contents:
- The Syntax of French Raising Verbs / Michel Achard 1
- A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to the Layperson's Understanding of Thermal Phenomena / Tamer G. Amin 27
- Voila voila: Extensions of Deictic Constructions in French / Benjamin K. Bergen, Madelaine C. Plauche 45
- Perspective, Deixis and Voice: Developmental Reflections / Nancy Budwig 63
- Semantic Influences on Attributions of Causality in Interpersonal Events / Roberta Corrigan 77
- The Cognitive Basis of Visual Evidentials / Ferdinand De Haan 91
- The Processing of Fixed Expressions During Sentence Comprehension / Dieter Hillert, David Swinney 107
- Constructional Grounding: On the Relation Between Deictic and Existential there-Constructions in Acquisition / Christopher Johnson 123
- What WH Means / Ronald W. Langacker 137
- Deixis and the front/back Opposition in Temporal Metaphors / Kevin Ezra Moore 153
- Linking Early Linguistic and Conceptual Capacities: The Role of Theory of Mind / Anna Papafragou 169
- Copula and Time-Stability / Regina Pustet 185
- Prosodic Integration in Spanish Complement Constructions / Ivo Sanchez 201
- Some Aspects of Path-Like Iconicity in German Separable Verb Constructions / Michael B. Smith 215
- Access Path Expressions in Thai / Kiyoko Takahashi 237
- Switch Reference and Zero Anaphora: Emergent Reference in Discourse Processing / Liang Tao 253.
- Notes:
- "This volume stems from the fourth such conference, CSDL-4, which was held at Emory University in Atlanta in October, 1998"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1575862581
- OCLC:
- 46353445
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