GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS

Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Adriana Maria Tenuta (Eds.)

(Inter)Cultural Perspectives

The book brings together contributions from researchers in the fields of cognitive and cultural linguistics and addresses current issues on metaphor studies from an (inter)cultural perspective.

Ulrike Schröder and Adriana Maria Tenuta, Univ. Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Universität Potsdam.

Approx. 270 pp., 20 fig. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-068815-3 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-068830-6 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-068835-1

A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective

Based on a corpus-analysis of multimodal usageevents, 7 chapters explore gestural repetitions with regard to their structure, semantic and syntactic relevance for multimodal utterances, and cognitive saliency. It is concluded that gestural repetitions are not only a basic principle of building patterns in spoken and signed languages, but also in gestures.

Jana Bressem, University of Technology, Chemnitz.

Approx. 270 pp., 47 fig. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-069772-8 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-069790-2 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-069799-5

Motion Events in Spanish as a Second Language

The book analyzes the complex relationship between languages in the bilingual mind. Specifically, the focus is placed on motion event typology and the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. By carefully examining inter- and intra-typological differences between Spanish, German, French and Italian, the author reveals interesting cross-linguistic transfer processes at work in second language acquisition.

Alberto Hijazo-Gascón; University of East Anglia; Norwich; United Kingdom.

Approx. 350 pp., 25 fig. HC RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 ISBN 978-3-11-072102-7 eBook RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072107-2 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-072109-6

Andrea Pizarro Pedraza (Ed.)

Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives

This volume provides novel, cognitive perspectives on linguistic taboo phenomena, such as euphemism, swearing, political correctness or coprolalia. Taboo researchers from various disciplines explore the cognitive facets of this complex topic and their interplay with social, political and cultural dynamics in varied languages and cultures. The volume provides a review of the state of the art supported by fourteen case studies.

Andrea Pizarro Pedraza, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

332 pp. Pb. RRP € 20.95 / *US$ 24.99 / *£ 19.00 ISBN 978-3-11-068515-2 Eline Zenner, Ad Backus, Esme Winter-Froemel (Eds.)

Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change

This volume makes a case for Cognitive Contact Linguistics as a framework excellently suited to the integration of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic inquiry of the bi- and multilingual mind. Oriented more towards exploration than towards specialization, the volume presents ten papers that together illustrate the wide range of research that can ensue from the interaction of Contact Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics.

Eline Zenner, KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium; Ad Backus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Esme Winter-Froemel, Universität Trier.

348 pp., 40 fig. Pb. RRP € 19.95 / *US$ 22.99 / *£ 18.00 ISBN 978-3-11-070799-1

Exploring Developmental Cognitive Linguistics

This book puts cognition (back) at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. The new discipline of developmental cognitive linguistics explores the idea that language is constructed, and constrained, by the rich social and cognitive world of the child.

Paul Ibbotson, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

234 pp., 26 fig. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-064441-8 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-064791-4 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-064450-0