LINGUIST List 17.3151

Fri Oct 27 2006

Books: Semantics/Syntax: Athanasiadou, Canakis, Cornillie (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Julia Ulrich, Subjectification: Athanasiadou, Canakis, Cornillie (Eds)

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Message 1: Subjectification: Athanasiadou, Canakis, Cornillie (Eds)
Date: 23-Oct-2006
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Subjectification: Athanasiadou, Canakis, Cornillie (Eds)


Title: Subjectification Subtitle: Various Paths to Subjectivity Series Title: Cognitive Linguistics Research 31 Published: 2006 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
                http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-9783110185300-1&l=E

Editor: Angeliki Athanasiadou Editor: Costas Canakis Editor: Bert Cornillie Hardback: ISBN: 9783110185300 Pages: 408 Price: Europe EURO 98.00 Comment: for for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 132.30
Abstract:

Subjectification is a widespread phenomenon and has emerged as a mostpervasive tendency in diachronic semantic change (Traugott) and insynchronic semantic extension (Langacker). Its importance is increasinglyvalued despite the fact that it is an area that has been treateddifferently by different scholars. One of the book's objectives is togenerate a clearer understanding of the two major models of subjectivity,to see where they can meet but also where intrinsic differences presentbarriers to any integration. Another objective is to speculate on whetherthe notions of subjectivity and subjectification have reshaped ourunderstanding of grammar.

The goals of the volume are the following:-The volume brings together contributions dealing with particular areas ofgrammar in the framework of subjectivity and subjectification. Startingwith Stein and Wright's 1995 edition, publications on the specific processhave broadened the scope of this research. Indeed, the question 'how farhave we come?', addressed in the introduction, has become central inreaching a clearer understanding of the above framework and even expandingit.-Individual papers explore not only wider questions and implications on thetheoretical status of subjectivity and subjectification in language, butare empirically supported by thorough and extensive data from differentlanguages (Asian languages, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, English). Thesestudies of particular areas of grammar (modals, adjectives) or of levels ofanalysis (syntax) can help implement or adapt the existing accounts ofsubjectivity made in the literature.-The challenge for every single paper is to show whether the two majorapproaches (Langacker's and Traugott's) can possibly be integrated orwhether they are fundamentally different. The papers also investigate intothe questions whether we have a continuum from highly subjective to moreobjective, whether subjective need be opposed to objective, or whethersubjective may also be understood in contrast to neutral (which is oftenthe case in Traugott's examples of grammaticalization). Furthermore, theissue of intersubjectivity, i.e., putting the addressee's perspectiveonstage, is also discussed.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics                             Syntax
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)                             English (eng)                             German, Standard (deu)                             Greek (ell)                             Spanish (spa)
Written In: English (eng )

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