Cognitive Linguistics Current Applications and Future Perspectives 1st Edition by Gitte Kristiansen, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, René Dirven, Michel Achard ISBN 978-3110189506 311018950X

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ISBN 10: 311018950X

ISBN 13: 978-3110189506

Author: Gitte Kristiansen, Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, René Dirven, Michel Achard

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific information value.

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An excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in Linguistics.
Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in the field.
Accessible to a general audience, yet also c

Table of contents: 

1. Approaches to world Englishes:

Paradigms, positions, and perspectives

1.1. Cognitive Linguistics and the study of world Englishes

1.2. The world Englishes paradigm

1.2.1. Dominant perspectives in world Englishes research

1.2.1.1. The English studies approach

1.2.1.2. The English corpus linguistics approach

1.2.1.3. The sociolinguistic approach

1.2.1.4. Pidgins and creole studies

1.2.1.5. The lexicographical approach

1.2.1.6. Applied linguistics approaches

1.2.1.7. “Common errors” studies

1.2.1.8. The “ecology of language” approach

1.2.1.9. Critical linguistic approaches

1.2.1.10. The generativist approach

1.2.1.11. “Popularizers” and “futurologists”

1.2.2. A critical appraisal of the world Englishes paradigm

1.2.2.1. A critical assessment of the descriptivist approach to world Englishes

1.2.2.2. A critical assessment of the critical approach to world Englishes

1.2.2.3. A critical assessment of hybridizationism

1.3. The Cognitive Linguistic paradigm and the study of language variation

1.3.1. Cultural conceptualization research

1.3.2. Cultural script research

1.3.3. Cultural keyword research

1.3.4. Social cognition research

1.3.5. Sociolinguistic metatheory research

1.4. Scope, methodology, and the empirical basis of our study

2. The cultural model of community in African English:

A comparative account

2.1. Analytical tools: Conceptual metaphor, cultural models, conceptual networks

2.2. Aspects of the African community model

2.2.1. The reference point of the kinship-based community model

2.2.2. Relations of group membership: The identity dimension

2.2.3. Relations of mutual obligations: The nurture dimension

2.2.4. Spiritual relations: The cosmological dimension

2.2.5. Relations of tensions: The occult dimension

2.3. Interim summary

2.4. The African community model and politics

2.5. Summary and implications of the analysis

3. Reflections on the study of intercultural communication

3.1. Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study of intercultural communication

3.1.1. Some general problems with current

functionalist pragmatics

3.1.2. Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Cognitive Linguistics

3.2. Foci of a hermeneutic approach to intercultural communication and a critique of functionalist positions

3.2.1. Emphasis on meaning

3.2.2. The recognition of conceptualizations at group level

3.2.3. Emphasis on succeeding communication

3.3. Intercultural understanding and the problem of relativism

3.4. Concluding remarks

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