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7 September 2010

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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

Second revised edition

Edited by René Dirven and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
University of Duisberg-Essen / University of Groningen

In collaboration with Johan De Caluwé, Dirk Geeraerts, Cliff Goddard, Stef Grondelaers, Ralf Pörings, Günter Radden, Willy Serniclaes, Marcello Soffritti, Wilbert Spooren, John Rawson Taylor, Ignacio Vazquez, Anna Wierzbicka and Margaret E. Winters

Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 1

2004. xii, 277 pp.
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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics.

In each of these areas language is explored as part of a cognitive system comprising perception, emotion, categorisation, abstraction processes, and reasoning. All these cognitive abilities may interact with language and be influenced by language. Thus the study of language in a sense becomes the study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts.

This Second Revised Edition is corrected, updated and expanded.

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is clearly presented and organized after having been tested in several courses in various countries.

Includes exercises (solutions to be found on the Internet).

Table of contents

Preface
ix–xii
1. The cognitive basis of language: Language and thought
1–23
2. What’s in a word? Lexicology
25–48
3. Meaningful building blocks: Morphology
49–74
4. Putting concepts together: Syntax
75–100
5. The sounds of language: Phonetics and Phonology
101–126
6. Language, culture and meaning: Cross-cultural semantics
127–148
7. Doing things with words: Pragmatics
149–177
8. Structuring texts: Text linguistics
179–201
9. Language across time: Historical linguistics
203–230
10. Comparing languages: Language: classification, typology, and contrastive linguistics
231–258
References
259–268
Subject index
269–277

“Clear, simple and generally accessible, with useful exercises at the end of each chapter.”
Dick Hudson, University College London

“Written with an audience of linguistics neonates in mind, this introduction to contemporary linguistics offers a perceptive overview of major issues in the field which make for rewarding reading even for more advanced students.”
Verena Haser, Freiburg University

“My own experience proves that this book is an excellent introduction to linguistics. All areas of linguistics are explained from a cognitive point of view and therefore easier to understand for students without any previous knowledge. It enables them to create bridges between linguistics and other knowledge.”
Friedrich Ungerer, Rostock

Subject classification

Linguistics
Cognition and language