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Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use Series

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The book series Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use is a forum for interdisciplinary research on the grammatical structure, semantic organization, and communicative function of language(s), and their anchoring in human cognitive faculties. Accordingly, the series will publish works addressing the nature o…

Book 1

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
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3.33 · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions
This comparative study of Chinese and English meta…

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    Linguistic Attractors: The Cognitive Dynamics of Language Acquisition and Change
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    Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations
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    Significant new developments in brain activity res…

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    Metonymy in Language and Thought
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1999 · 4 editions
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    Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A Cognitive-pragmatic Perspective
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    Pattern and Process
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    The Structure of Arguments
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    Text Representation
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    Book 9

    Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse
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    ‘Perspective’ and ‘viewpoint’ are widely used in e…

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    Book 10

    Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language
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    Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based gene…

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    Book 11

    Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy
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    0.00     · published 2003 · 4 editions
    A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in w…

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    The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition
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    3.12     · 8 Ratings · published 2004 · 4 editions
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    The Building Blocks of Meaning. Ideas for a Philosophical Grammar.
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    The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctua…

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    Book 14

    Analogy As Structure And Process: Approaches in Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology And Philosophy of Science
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    The concept of analogy is of central concern to mo…

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    Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries
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    Book 16

    `Kubla Khan' - Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive Style
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    This book endorses Coleridge's "nothing can perman…

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    Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representation And Idiom-Variation in English
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    Book 18

    Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
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    Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introductio…

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    Book 19

    Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations
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    Book 20

    The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition
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    Despite a growing interest for space in language, …

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    The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
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    This book offers, for the first time, a detailed c…

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    Book 22

    Metaphors for Learning
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    In Contemporary Metaphor Theory (CMT) research has…

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    Discourse, Vision, and Cognition
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    While there is a growing body of psycholinguistic …

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    Book 24

    New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
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    Book 25

    Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
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    Figurative language has been regarded traditionall…

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    Book 26

    Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
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    0.00     · published 2010 · 3 editions
    It has become increasingly clear that metaphor nee…

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    Book 27

    Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
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    Language structure and use are largely shaped by c…

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    Book 28

    Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics
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    While cognitive linguists are essentially in agree…

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    Book 29

    Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality.
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    This volume addresses problems of semantics regard…

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    Book 30

    Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences
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    Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study o…

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    Book 31

    Embodiment via Body Parts
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    Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cog…

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    Book 32

    Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion
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    Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of l…

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    Book 33

    Converging Evidence
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    Book 34

    The Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German
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    This is really two books in one: a valuable refere…

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    Book 35

    A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative
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    This volume offers the first comprehensive descrip…

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    Book 36

    Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity
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    This volume offers novel insights into linguistic …

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    Book 37

    Space and Time in Languages and Cultures. Language, Culture, and Cognition.
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    Book 38

    Metaphor in Use
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    Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is al…

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    Book 39

    From Space to Time: A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions
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    Book 40

    Practical Theories and Empirical Practice
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    There is a perceived tension between empirical and…

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    Book 41

    Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events
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    0.00     · published 2013 · 3 editions
    The linguistic typology of motion event encoding i…

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    Book 42

    The Spatial Language of Time
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    Corpus Methods for Semantics
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    This volume seeks to advance and popularise the us…

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    Book 44

    Multilingual Cognition and Language Use
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    This volume provides a multifaceted view of certai…

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    Book 45

    Cognitive Modeling
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    This monograph studies cognitive operations on cog…

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    Book 46

    Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: "More than Meats the Eye"
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    The major purpose of newspaper headlines is to tri…

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    Book 47

    Fictive Interaction: The conversation frame in thought, language, and discourse
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    Language is intimately related to interaction. The…

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    Book 48

    Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications
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    How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? …

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    Book 49

    The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes
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    Book 50

    Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French
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    0.00     · published 2015 · 2 editions
    This book investigates French impersonals as a fun…

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    Book 51

    Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude
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    Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a sh…

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    Book 52

    Conceptualizations of Time
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    As time cannot be observed directly, it must be an…

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    Book 53

    A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure
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    This volume represents the first comprehensive wor…

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    Book 54

    Studies in Lexicogrammar
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    The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the pre…

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    Book 55

    The Conversation Frame
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    This edited volume brings together the latest rese…

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    Book 56

    Studies in Figurative Thought and Language
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    This volume contains original research and innovat…

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    Book 57

    How Grammar Links Concepts
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    The proposed framework of concept linking combines…

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    Book 58

    Constructing Families of Constructions
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    Within Construction Grammar, this volume moves awa…

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    Book 59

    Motion and Space across Languages
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    This volume offers a unique combination of interdi…

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    Book 60

    Conceptual Metonymy
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    Book 61

    Evidence for Evidentiality
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    Statements are always under the threat of the pote…

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    Aspectuality across Languages
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    Book 63

    Mental Models across Languages
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    This book presents a study that triangulates the m…

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    Book 64

    Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition
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    Language Learning, Discourse and Studies in the tr…

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    Book 65

    Perspectives on Abstract Concepts
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    Human language is the most powerful communication …

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    Book 66

    The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French
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    Research on the semantics of spatial markers in Fr…

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    Book 67

    Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese
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    Book 68

    Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar Exploration of Korean
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    This monograph answers the rarely discussed questi…

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    Book 69

    Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions
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    Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities …

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