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Historical Cognitive Linguistics

Historical Cognitive Linguistics

Hardcover

Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research, Book 47

Linguistics

ISBN10: 311022643X
ISBN13: 9783110226430
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Dec 13 2010
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of particular concepts and extensions of these prototypes, and secondly, those which relate to conceptual networks, for example via metaphor or metonymy. More specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions.

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