Historical Cognitive Linguistics
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:311022643X
ISBN13:9783110226430
Release Date:December 2010
Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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