Books: Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation: Fuchs, Raffaelli, Brdar (Eds)
Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby
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Title: Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation Publication Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org
Editor: Milena Žic Fuchs Editor: Ida Raffaelli Editor: Mario Brdar
"This volume takes up the challenge of assessing the present state of Cognitive Linguistics on the cutting edge between universality and variability. Claims of universality have never been explicitly articulated by cognitive linguists but studies on embodiment, motivation and cognitive processes such as metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual integration rely on general cognitive abilities and hence tacitly assume cross-linguistic commonalities. Variability within a language and across languages has received growing attention, especially in contrastive and corpus-based studies. Both perspectives are given ample space in the articles collected in the volume.
"The present volume is the first to address the important issue of the position of Cognitive Linguistics between the poles of universality and variability. The editors' insightful introduction draws compelling awareness to this as a yet unresolved question. At the same time, the fine contributions collected in the volume reflect state-of-the-art research in Cognitive Linguistics and point to innovative avenues for future research. The interdisciplinary range of subject areas, the new approaches pursued and the various methodologies employed makes this volume particularly valuable. It should be of great interest to scholars working in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and in specific languages, particularly English and Slavic linguistics." - Günter Radden, University of Hamburg
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