Language in the context of use : discourse and cognitive approaches to language / edited by Andrea Tyler, Yiyoung Kim, Mari Takada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tyler, Andrea.

Kim, Yiyoung

Takada, Mari

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Cognitive linguistics research ; 37.

Cognitive linguistics research, 1861-4132 ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Cognitive grammar.

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

vi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.

Contents:

pt. 1. Discourse resources in meaning construction and language processing : discourse management, speaker stance and perspective, cognitive constraints and participant roles: Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces : functional contrasts in language and gesture / Eve Sweetser and Marisa Sizemore ; The role of compound pragmatic markers in the construction of Catalan oral narrative / Montserrat González ; Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing / Ruth A. Berman and Dorit Ravid ; Usage-based and form-focused SLA : the implicit and explicit learning of constructions / Nick C. Ellis ; Perspective shifts in ASL narratives : the problem of clause structure / Terry Janzen ; Making dative a case for semantic analysis : differences in use between native and non-native speakers of German / Olga Liamkina ; Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative viewpoint / Barbara Dancygier ; Meaning construction in humorous discourse : context and incongruities in conceptual blending / Akiko Fujii ; Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child English / Michael Israel ; Spanish gustar vs. English like : a cognitive analysis of the constructions and its implications for SLA / Valentina Marras and Teresa Cadierno

pt. 2. Applying discourse and corpus perspectives to issues in cognitive linguistics: The development of verb-argument structure in child discourse : on the use of construction variation in peer play / Melissa A. Smith and Nancy Budwig ; Another look at French split intransitivity / Michel Achard ; BORING : it's anything but / Barbara Shaffer ; It's like making a soup : metaphors and similes in spoken news discourse / Carol Lynn Moder ; A discourse approach to metaphor : explaining systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse community / Lynne Cameron ; "Superschemas" and the grammar of metaphorical mappings / Joseph Grady.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783110196191

3110196190

OCLC:

191207154