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Motivation in grammar and the lexicon / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Günter Radden.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human cognitive processing ; v. 27.
- Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Motivation in grammar
- pt. 2. Motivation in the lexicon.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613158352
- 9781283158350
- 1283158353
- 9789027287021
- 9027287023
- OCLC:
- 742621152
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