The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

A comprehensive survey of the quickly developing discipline of cognitive linguistics, its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context.

Barbara Dancygier (Edited by)

9781107544208, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 April 2021

842 pages, 70 b/w illus. 10 tables
24.5 x 17 x 4.2 cm, 1.41 kg

Advance praise: 'This is the definitive introduction to cognitive linguistics that the mature field deserves, written by the leading practitioners in cognitive approaches to grammar, semantics, conceptual structure, phonology, and everything in-between (and all around). I can't imagine a better introduction for students of language.' Benjamin K. Bergen, University of California, San Diego

The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.

Introduction Barbara Dancygier
Part I. Language in Cognition and Culture: 1. Opening commentary: language in cognition and culture N. J. Enfield
2. Relationships between language and cognition Daniel Casasanto
3. The study of indigenous languages Sally Rice
4. First language acquisition Laura E. De Ruiter and Anna L. Theakston
5. Second language acquisition Andrea Tyler
Part II. Language, Body, and Multimodal Communication: 6. Opening commentary: polytropos and communication in the wild Mark Turner
7. Signed languages Sherman Wilcox and Corinne Occhino
8. Gesture, language, and cognition Kensy Cooperrider and Susan Goldin-Meadow
9. Multimodality in interaction Kurt Feyaerts, Geert Brône and Bert Oben
10. Viewpoint Lieven Vandelanotte
11. Embodied intersubjectivity Jordan Zlatev
12. Intersubjectivity and grammar Ronny Boogaart and Alex Reuneker
Part III. Aspects of Linguistic Analysis: 13. Opening commentary: linguistic analysis John Newman
14. Phonology Geoffrey S. Nathan
15. The construction of words Geert Booij
16. Lexical semantics John R. Taylor
17. Cognitive grammar Ronald W. Langacker
18. From constructions to construction grammars Thomas Hoffmann
19. Construction grammars Thomas Hoffmann
20. Cognitive linguistics and pragmatics Kerstin Fischer
21. Fictive interaction Esther Pascual and Todd Oakley
22. Diachronic approaches Alexander Bergs
Part IV. Conceptual Mappings: 23. Opening commentary: conceptual mappings Eve Sweetser
24. Conceptual metaphor Karen Sullivan
25. Metonymy Jeannette Littlemore
26. Conceptual blending theory Todd Oakley and Esther Pascual
27. Embodiment Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr
28. Corpus linguistics and metaphor Elena Semino
29. Metaphor, simulation, and fictive motion Teenie Matlock
Part V. Methodological Approaches: 30. Opening commentary: getting the measure of meaning Chris Sinha
31. The quantitative turn Laura A. Janda
32. Language and the brain Seana Coulson
33. Cognitive sociolinguistics Willem B. Hollmann
34. Computational resources: framenet and constructicon Hans C. Boas
35. Computational approaches to metaphor: the case of MetaNet Oana A. David
36. Corpus approaches Stefan Gries
37. Cognitive linguistics and the study of textual meaning Barbara Dancygier
Part VI. Concepts and Approaches: Space and Time: 38. Linguistic patterns of space and time vocabulary Eve Sweetser and Alice Gaby
39. Space-time mappings beyond language Alice Gaby and Eve Sweetser
40. Conceptualizing time in terms of space: experimental evidence Tom Gijssels and Daniel Casasanto
41. Discovering spatiotemporal concepts in discourse Thora Tenbrink.

Subject Areas: Pattern recognition [UYQP], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Psycholinguistics [CFD], Linguistics [CF]