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  • - A Cognitive Approach
    by Vancouver) Dancygier & Barbara (University of British Columbia
    £36.49

    How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Drawing on blending theory and construction grammar, this book focuses its linguistic lens on the concepts of the narrator and the story, and defines narrative viewpoint in a new way.

  • by Eve (University of California, Vancouver) Dancygier, Barbara (University of British Columbia & et al.
    £29.99

    This lively introduction to figurative language develops new analytical tools and proposes a cohesive view of a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and irony. Comprehensive and practical, the book provides definitions of major concepts, offers in-depth analysis of examples and surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres.

  • - Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions
    by Vancouver) Dancygier & Barbara (University of British Columbia
    £42.99 - 101.49

    This book offers an in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages.

  • - Conditional Constructions
    by Eve (University of California, Vancouver) Dancygier, Barbara (University of British Columbia & et al.
    £37.49 - 101.49

    In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space-building processes underlying conditional thinking and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressing conditionality.

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