LINGUIST List 21.5233 Wed Dec 22 2010 Books: Cog Sci: Winters Et al. (Eds) - Syntax: Dorgeloh, Wanner (Eds) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Julia Ulrich , Historical Cognitive Linguistics: Winters, Tissari, Allan (Eds)         2.     Julia Ulrich , Syntactic Variation and Genre: Dorgeloh, Wanner (Eds) Message 1: Historical Cognitive Linguistics: Winters, Tissari, Allan (Eds) Date: 21-Dec-2010 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Historical Cognitive Linguistics: Winters, Tissari, Allan (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: Historical Cognitive Linguistics Series Title: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 47 Published: 2010 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110226430-1 Editor: Margaret E. Winters Editor: Heli Tissari Editor: Kathryn Louise Allan Electronic: ISBN: 9783110226447 Pages: 360 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110226430 Pages: 360 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Abstract: 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 specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions. In presenting a wide range of current work of this kind, the volume demonstrates the value of cross-fertilization between historical and cognitive linguistics, and is intended to open the way for further related research. The included papers are of particular relevance to those working in metaphor theory and syntactic / semantic change within Cognitive Linguistics, but will also be of interest to other historical linguists and those studying cognitive semantics and metaphor from a synchronic viewpoint. Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Historical Linguistics                             Linguistic Theories                             Cognitive Science                             Historical Linguistics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52388 Message 2: Syntactic Variation and Genre: Dorgeloh, Wanner (Eds) Date: 21-Dec-2010 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Syntactic Variation and Genre: Dorgeloh, Wanner (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: Syntactic Variation and Genre Series Title: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 70 Published: 2010 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110226478-1 Editor: Heidrun Dorgeloh Editor: Anja Wanner Electronic: ISBN: 9783110226485 Pages: 364 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110226478 Pages: 364 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Abstract: This volume explores the interplay of syntactic variation and genre. How do genres emerge and what is the role of syntax in constituting them? Why do certain constructions appear in certain types of text? The book takes the concept of genre as a reference-point for the description and analysis of morpho-syntactic variation and change. It includes both overviews of theoretical approaches to the concept of genre and text type in linguistics and studies of specific syntactic phenomena in English, German, and selected Romance languages. Contributions to the volume make use of insights from attempts for text classification and rhetorical views on genre and reach from quantitative, corpus-based methodology to qualitative, text-based analyses. The types of texts investigated cover spoken, highly interactive, and written forms of communication, including selected genres of computer-mediated communication. Corpus data come from both synchronic and diachronic linguistic corpora, such as LOB, Brown, FLOB, Frown, ARCHER, and ICE-Jamaica. This spectrum both in approaches and data is meant to provide a theoretical foundation as well as a realistic view of the inherent complexity of form-function relationships in syntax. At the same time, genre is treated as a category relevant beyond discourse studies, consisting of forms and conventions at all levels of linguistic analysis, including syntax. The book is therefore of interest to linguists and graduate students in the area of syntax, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, as well as to sociolinguists and corpus linguists working on register variation. Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories                             Pragmatics                             Sociolinguistics                             Syntax                             Text/Corpus Linguistics                             Discourse Analysis                             Functional Grammar Subject Language(s): English (eng) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52397 New! 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