Books in the Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] series

The book gathers papers delineating new perspectives for Cognitive Linguistics research. The book is also of use to scholars of other disciplines, such as discourse and translation studies, theology, rhetoric, speech therapy and so forth.

This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of studies in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of cognitive poetics. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer cognitive readings of literary texts.

Metaphor pervades discourse and may govern how we think and act. But most studies only discuss its verbal varieties. This book examines metaphors drawing on combinations of visuals, language, gestures, sound and music. It investigates texts including advertising, political cartoons, comics, film, songs and oral communication.

This book presents ample empirical evidence that making language learners appreciate the motivated nature of language can help them comprehend and remember many words and phrases.

The volume makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the intricate relationship between culture, body and language by focusing on conceptualizations of internal body organs in several languages.

Presents insights from cognitive linguistics with respect to grammar and their potential relevance to second and foreign language learning and teaching. This book describes the tools of cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics. It deals with general issues of a pedagogical grammar as well as prototypical grammatical problems.

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers.

Using cultural scripts and semantic explications, the authors show how speech practices can be contextualised and understood in terms of the values, norms and beliefs of speakers themselves.

The studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties.

This volume contains a collection of papers which discuss the contributions of cognitive linguistics to translation. The papers compiled in the present volume purport to investigate the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on the formulation of a cognitive translation theory.

what Howes (2003: XVII) calls "the relation of the verbal to other 'nonverbal' (or sensual) registers of communication", the contributions in this book revisit the notion of embodiment by paying particular attention to its sensuous dimension without losing sight of its cultural and cognitive components.

Creativity is a highly-prized quality in almost any domain of human endeavor, whether one is crafting tangible objects from physical materials, or mental objects from concepts, words, pictures and musical notes.

Terminology and Cognitive Linguistics have common areas of focus. This book shows how Cognitive Linguistics can be applied to specialized language within the context of Frame-based Terminology, a new cognitive approach to specialized knowledge units.

While the role of metaphor in economics and business is substantiated in multiple research articles no comprehensive book-length study has appeared.

Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought

This volume contains a collection of papers which discuss the contributions of cognitive linguistics to translation. The papers purport to investigate the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on the formulation of a cognitive translation theory.