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Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency Through Cognitive Linguistics

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 Assesses and supplements Cognitive Linguistics (CL) proposals for instructed second language acquisition.
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Applied Construction Grammar

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 Explores various aspects of "Applied Construction Grammar" through a collection of studies that apply Construction Grammar (CxG) and CxG-inspired approaches to issues in L2 acquisition and teaching. This book shows how cross-fertilization of CxG and L2 acquisition/teaching can lead to new theoretical insights and improved pedagogical practices.
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Genre In Language, Discourse And Cognition

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 The study of genre is scattered across research disciplines. This volume deals with questions such as: What does genre knowledge consist of? How is it organized in cognition? How is it applied in discourse production and interpretation? How is it reflected in language use?
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Change Of Paradigms Â€“ New Paradoxes - Recontextualizing Language And Linguistics

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 Reveals how Cognitive Linguistics has developed and diversified over the past decades.
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Frequency Effects In Instructed Second Language Acquisition

by Karin Madlener

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 Based on a review of prior research in all related domains, this book talks about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.
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Usage-Based Perspectives On Second Language Learning

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 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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Locative Expressions In English And French - A Multimodal Approach

by Mark Tutton

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 Expressing location is one of the most common linguistic tasks that we perform in our daily lives. This book provides a comprehensive analysis into how speakers of English and French use gesture as well as speech when describing where objects are located. It shows that spoken locative expressions are made up of both speech and gesture components.
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Metaphor In Communication, Science And Education

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 This collection of papers presents some recent trends in metaphor studies that propose new directions of research on the embodied cognition perspective. The overall volume, in particular, shows how the embodied cognition still remains a relevant app
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Linguistic Relativity - Evidence Across Languages And Cognitive Domains

by Caleb Everett

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 This book introduces the reader to the current findings on linguistic relativity, and in so doing helps to answer one of the most vexing questions in the cognitive and social sciences: Does the language you speak affect how you think?
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Pluricentricity - Language Variation And Sociocognitive Dimensions

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 The studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties.
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Cognitive Linguistics And Translation - Advances In Some Theoretical Models And Applications

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 This volume contains a collection of papers which discuss the contributions of cognitive linguistics to translation. The papers compiled in the present volume purport to investigate the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on the formulation of a cognitive translation theory.
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Sensuous Cognition - Explorations Into Human Sentience: Imagination, (E)Motion And Perception

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 what Howes (2003: XVII) calls "the relation of the verbal to other 'nonverbal' (or sensual) registers of communication", the contributions in this book revisit the notion of embodiment by paying particular attention to its sensuous dimension without losing sight of its cultural and cognitive components.
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Cognitive Linguistics And Humor Research

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 Although the authors in this volume approach this question from different perspectives, they share the profound belief that humorous data may provide a unique insight into the complex interplay of quantitative and qualitative aspects of meaning construction.
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Creativity And The Agile Mind - A Multi-Disciplinary Study Of A Multi-Faceted Phenomenon

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 Creativity is a highly-prized quality in almost any domain of human endeavor, whether one is crafting tangible objects from physical materials, or mental objects from concepts, words, pictures and musical notes.
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Linguistic Relativity - Evidence Across Languages And Cognitive Domains

by Caleb Everett

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 This book introduces the reader to the current findings on linguistic relativity, and in so doing helps to answer one of the most vexing questions in the cognitive and social sciences: Does the language you speak affect how you think?
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Cognitive Linguistics And Translation - Advances In Some Theoretical Models And Applications

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 This volume contains a collection of papers which discuss the contributions of cognitive linguistics to translation. The papers purport to investigate the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on the formulation of a cognitive translation theory.
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A Cognitive Linguistics View Of Terminology And Specialized Language

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 Terminology and Cognitive Linguistics have common areas of focus. This book shows how Cognitive Linguistics can be applied to specialized language within the context of Frame-based Terminology, a new cognitive approach to specialized knowledge units.
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Metaphor And Mills - Figurative Language In Business And Economics

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 While the role of metaphor in economics and business is substantiated in multiple research articles no comprehensive book-length study has appeared.
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Cognitive Linguistics In Action - From Theory To Application And Back

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 The book gathers papers delineating new perspectives for Cognitive Linguistics research. The book is also of use to scholars of other disciplines, such as discourse and translation studies, theology, rhetoric, speech therapy and so forth.
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Cognitive Poetics - Goals, Gains And Gaps

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 This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of studies in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of cognitive poetics. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer cognitive readings of literary texts.
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Cognitive Foundations Of Linguistic Usage Patterns - Empirical Studies

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 There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. This title features contributions that pursue such a usage-based cognitive linguistic approach by presenting empirical investigations of lexical and grammatical patterns.
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The Chinese Heart In A Cognitive Perspective - Culture, Body, And Language

by Ning Yu

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 This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The concept of HEART, encoded in the word xin, lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language.
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Multimodal Metaphor

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 Metaphor pervades discourse and may govern how we think and act. But most studies only discuss its verbal varieties. This book examines metaphors drawing on combinations of visuals, language, gestures, sound and music. It investigates texts including advertising, political cartoons, comics, film, songs and oral communication.
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World Englishes - A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach

by Frank Polzenhagen e Hans-Georg Wolf

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 Presents Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for the study of cultural variation in world Englishes and within languages in general by offering a corpus-based analysis of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English. This book also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication.
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