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Constructions in Cognitive Contexts : Why Individuals Matter in Linguistic Relativity Research /

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 in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Günther, Franziska
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; volume 299.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Constructions in cognitive contexts
  • 2. Setting the theoretical scene
  • 3. Construing spatial scenes in German and English
  • 4. Attention, 'ception' and language: Basic considerations
  • 5. Constructions as [form-construal meaning]- associations
  • 6. Spatial language, cognition and perception: Methods and hypotheses
  • 7. Experiment 1
  • linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: Patterns of language- and speaker-specific variation
  • 8. Experiment 2
  • linguistic and non-linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: The role of cognitive contexts
  • 9. Conclusion: Constructions, cognition, cognitive contexts and beyond
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Author index
  • Topic index.