LINGUIST List 22.105 Thu Jan 06 2011 Books: Cog Sci/Socioling/Lexicography: Ho-Abdullah Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Christian Bieri , Variety and Variability: Ho-Abdullah Message 1: Variety and Variability: Ho-Abdullah Date: 22-Dec-2010 From: Christian Bieri <publicitypeterlang.com> Subject: Variety and Variability: Ho-Abdullah E-mail this message to a friend Title: Variety and Variability Subtitle: A Corpus-based Cognitive Lexical-semantics Analysis of Prepositional Usage in British, New Zealand and Malaysian English Series Title: Europäische Hochschulschriften - Volume 370 Published: 2010 Publisher: Peter Lang AG                 http://www.peterlang.com Author: Imran Ho-Abdullah Paperback: ISBN: 9783034305822 Pages: 291 Price: U.S. $ 56.59 Paperback: ISBN: 9783034305822 Pages: 291 Price: U.K. £ 33.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9783034305822 Pages: 291 Price: Europe EURO 36.70 Comment: for Germany EURO 39.30, for Austria EURO 40.40 Abstract: Research into varieties of Englishes around the world has received much attention from scholars. This book offers a new perspective from a cognitive inter and intra lexemic analysis of prepositional variations in Malaysian English and contrasts them with similar prepositions in New Zealand and British English. Based on corpora data from the three varieties, the author provides usage types analysis of the prepositions at, in and on. The analysis exploits cognitive approaches to prepositional polysemy and gives a motivated account of prepositional variations across varieties. The book offers a wealth of corpus based linguistic data and explanation to our understanding of variations in prepositional usage in different varieties of English. The distributional frequencies of various usage types are provided to illustrate the variation. Contents: Variety and Variability - Descriptions of Prepositional Meaning - A Cognitive Linguistic Framework for Prepositional Usage - The Data Source & Methodology of Usage-type Resolution - Looking at 'at' - Indulging in 'in' - Reflecting on 'on'. Imran Ho-Abdullah, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He has conducted extensive research in various aspects of English and Malay linguistics using corpus methodology and cognitive linguistics framework. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Cognitive Science                             Lexicography                             Semantics                             Sociolinguistics 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=52410 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Page Updated: 06-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.