Wow! eBook
Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
Author(s): Klaus-Uwe Panther (Editor), Günter Radden
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date: June 29, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 314 pages
- ISBN-10: 9027223815
- ISBN-13: 9789027223814
Book Description
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 Korean. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in cognitive and functional linguistics.
