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Does Cognitive Linguistics live up to its name? Universiteit Antwerpen
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 ...
From Linguistics to Hermeneutics. A Functional and Cognitive Approach to Job 12-14 KU Leuven
Linguistics and hermeneutics are often regarded as two mutually exclusive scholarly disciplines. Recent decades have witnessed the rise, however, of linguistic approaches that take meaning back to the heart of their inquiry and hence can be fruitful to textual interpretation. This book applies the insights of two of these approaches, viz. functional grammar and cognitive semantics, to the study of Biblical Hebrew with a specific focus on Job ...
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. Placing usage, meaning and mind at the core of contact-induced variation and change KU Leuven
This volume makes a case for Cognitive Contact Linguistics as a framework excellently suited to the integration of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic inquiry of the bi- and multilingual mind. Oriented more towards exploration than towards specialization, the volume presents ten papers that together illustrate the wide range of research that can ensue from the interaction of contact linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics.
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 ...
How cognitive linguistics can foster effective vocabulary teaching Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Introduction to the collective volume, including review of previous research