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Constructions in Cognitive Contexts

2016-11-07 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Constructions in Cognitive Contexts by : Franziska Günther

Download or read book Constructions in Cognitive Contexts written by Franziska Günther. This book was released on 2016-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what ways are language, cognition and perception interrelated? Do they influence each other? This book casts a fresh light on these questions by putting individual speakers’ cognitive contexts, i.e. their usage-preferences and entrenched patterns of linguistic knowledge, into the focus of investigation. It presents findings from original experimental research on spatial language use which indicate that these individual-specific factors indeed play a central role in determining whether or not differences in the current and/or habitual linguistic behaviour of speakers of German and English are systematically correlated with differences in non-linguistic behaviour (visual attention allocation to and memory for spatial referent scenes). These findings form the basis of a new, speaker-focused usage-based model of linguistic relativity, which defines language-perception/cognition effects as a phenomenon which primarily occurs within individual speakers rather than between speakers or speech communities.

Constructions in Cognitive Contexts

2016 Cognition
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Genre : Cognition
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Book Synopsis Constructions in Cognitive Contexts by : Franziska Gunther

Download or read book Constructions in Cognitive Contexts written by Franziska Gunther. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contexts and Constructions

2009 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis Contexts and Constructions by : Alexander Bergs

Download or read book Contexts and Constructions written by Alexander Bergs. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Construction Grammars

2005-02-28 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2005-02-28
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Book Synopsis Construction Grammars by : Jan-Ola Östman

Download or read book Construction Grammars written by Jan-Ola Östman. This book was released on 2005-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals. The volume also gives informative accounts of how the notion ‘construction’ is developed in approaches that are conceptually close to, and relatively compatible with, CxG: Conceptual Semantics, Word Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, Embodied Construction Grammar, and Radical Construction Grammar.

Constructions

2011-08-29 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Constructions by : Peter Auer

Download or read book Constructions written by Peter Auer. This book was released on 2011-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume embarks on an exploration of the processual and dynamic character of grammatical constructions in emergence, both from an ‘emergent’ and an ‘emerging’ perspective. ‘Emerging’ constructions develop out of their discourse contexts. Talking of emerging constructions is compatible with a view of grammar as a stable system of rules and structures which may ‘emerge’ (i.e., come into existence) out of a pool of previously unordered elements. ‘Emergent’ constructions on the contrary are due to the on-line production of grammar in time. The term ‘emergent’ emphasises the fact that a grammatical structure is always temporary and ephemeral. In both senses, grammar is modelled as a highly adaptive resource for interaction. On the basis of empirical studies on spoken English, German, Hebrew, Swedish and French, the volume addresses the following questions: How can what initially appears to be construction x end up being construction y in on-line syntax? What are the local interactional needs which such processes respond to in the process of their emergence? Does the on-line (re-)modelling of a construction concern its syntactic or semantic side ‐ or both? And finally: Should emergent grammatical structures as they unfold in real time be seen as stages in the emerging of grammar?

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