Cognitive Approaches to English
This volume presents cognitive approaches to English, discussing motivation in grammar, meaning construction, interlinguistic variation, and TEFL issues. It explores how these phenomena are motivated by metaphorical and metonymic operations.
This text discusses various ways of approaching the problems associated with specialist languages, such as the languages of law and business, which can be perceived as highly conventionalized and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific situations.
Current methods of teaching language are failing because we lack a holistic understanding of how language shapes human interaction. Orthodox science sees language as a tool, but there is no humanness without languaging. This volume forges a new path.
Rudkiewicz provides evidence to support that ‘for’ is a category by itself, characterised by a complex semantic structure comprising ‘for’-sanctioning schemas in English. Her study offers a cognitive perspective, with the aid of Langacker’s cognitive grammar methodology.
This volume is the first to address the position of Cognitive Linguistics between universality and variability. The state-of-the-art contributions point to innovative avenues for future research, making this volume particularly valuable.
– Günter Radden
Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis
This volume explores the convergence of Cognitive Linguistics and critical discourse analysis. It addresses socio-political discourses on nation, immigration, and war, and is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society.
Since 1998, the “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” conference has attracted scientists worldwide. This volume gathers the most outstanding articles from the XIIIth conference, with studies of interest to both linguistics professionals and hobbyists.
This volume explores core issues in figurative language and thought across fourteen languages. It examines the relationship between literal and figurative meaning, the role of metaphor and metonymy as cognitive tools, and the import of cognitive models in communication.
This volume provides new insights into the dynamic nature of coherence in spoken and written discourse. Combining theoretical insights with practical analyses, it will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and students of English.
This collection of essays from an international conference presents important research in linguistics. It explores language theory, cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, and teaching methods. An essential volume for scholars and students.
This book presents the most important research from an international linguistic conference, covering Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics, and Translation. A key resource for philologists, teachers, and students.
Commanding Words
Encompassing subjects as varied as politics, culture, literature, history, and pedagogy, the twenty chapters of this book discuss the role authority plays in political, social, and academic organisation, postulating the interconnectedness between authority and discourse.
Common Core
A timely resource for immediate classroom use, this book provides practical approaches and teacher narratives from across the country—offering strategies to create vibrant, relevant instruction that lives beyond the Core.
Communicating English in Specialised Domains
This volume honors Maurizio Gotti’s academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.
Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age
The internet and social media have transformed medical science communication, making it more open and responsive. This book brings together academics and practitioners to critically discuss emerging trends and genres, and how they shape knowledge, expertise, and identity.
Communicating Specialized Knowledge
This book explores knowledge communication strategies for peers and lay audiences. Chapters examine dissemination in medicine, health, corporate communication, cultural heritage, and tourism, using corpus linguistics, genre studies, and multimodal analysis.
Communicating without Language and Grammar
This book introduces a new hard science, born from the effort to solve the problems of linguistics. This new approach provides a scientific theory that unifies the hard sciences, soft sciences, and the humanities, focusing on people, not abstract grammar or language.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This book explores the role of media in our modern, globalized world. Investigating communication through social sciences, cultural studies, and education, it offers unique insights from European countries in transition.
This title will serve to provide the reader with the communicative and language skills necessary to function in modern society. It identifies the descriptive functioning of language, as well as the communicative processes involved in its usage.
Prepare for university-level texts. This coursebook teaches strategies and vocabulary to build confidence and proficiency. Develop academic skills with lively exercises that weave the excitement of the Internet into your daily English communication.