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Meaning and interpretation: the semiotic similarities and differences between cognitive grammar and European structural linguistics Ghent University
On constructing a research model for historical cognitive linguistics (HCL): Some theoretical considerations. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper examines how historical cognitive linguistics can benefit methodologically
through the application of the notion of language as a complex adaptive system. The idea
that languages are complex adaptive systems (CAS) was introduced initially in computational
evolutionary linguistics, a discipline that was and remains inspired by biological,
systems theoretical approaches to the evolution of life. Here the way that the ...
through the application of the notion of language as a complex adaptive system. The idea
that languages are complex adaptive systems (CAS) was introduced initially in computational
evolutionary linguistics, a discipline that was and remains inspired by biological,
systems theoretical approaches to the evolution of life. Here the way that the ...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics KU Leuven
© 2007 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of cognitive linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. It starts with a set of articles discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized as key concepts in cognitive linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, ...
Cognitive Linguistics and interactional discourse: time to enter into dialogue KU Leuven
Usage-based theories hold that the sole resource for language users’ linguistic systems is language use (Barlow & Kemmer, 2000; Langacker, 1988; Tomasello, 1999, 2003). Researchers working in the usage-based paradigm, which is often equated with cognitive-functional linguistics (e.g., Ibbotson, 2013, Tomasello, 2003), seem to widely agree that the primary setting for language use is interaction, with spontaneous face-to-face interaction ...
Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics KU Leuven
In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse contexts. In this volume, originally published as a special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010), the contributors, a mix of established and ...
A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to the Discourse of Drug Information for Experts and Patients KU Leuven
The aim of this paper is to explore in greater detail the cognitive processes underlying the medical discourse used in written drug information for medical specialists and patients. Starting from a case study based on documents in English issued by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) we will provide some insights into the ways how drug-related issues such as the administration, use and possible side effects of drugs are conceptualized and ...
Methodological issues in corpus-based cognitive linguistics KU Leuven
© 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG. All rights reserved. A current trend in Cognitive Linguistics is the growing interest in empirical methods for linguistic analysis. Two groups of researchers, centred around Gries and Stefanowitsch (G & S) and around Geeraerts, Speelman and Grondelaers (QLVL), have relatively independently from each other tried to develop a methodology for empirical research in Cognitive Linguistics that is ...
Cognitive Contact Linguistics. The macro, meso and micro influence of English on Dutch. KU Leuven
This dissertation presents four multifactorial corpus-based studies describing the influence of English on the two main national varieties of Dutch. Overall, this study aims at three different goals. The first, and most modest goal, is to add to the description of the Dutch-English contact situation. Although the main focus of this work is put on lexical borrowing, a second and more ambitious goal is to illustrate how the study of language ...