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Title Motivation in grammar and the lexicon / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Günter Radden.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 306 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Human cognitive processing ; v. 27
Human cognitive processing ; v. 27.
Note "Most of the papers collected in the present volume originated from the theme session 'Moviation in language" organized by us at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Kraków, Poland, July 15-20, 2007"--Preface.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Motivation in grammar -- pt. 2. Motivation in the lexicon.
Summary Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and - mediated through cognition - by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic system itself. The contributors to the present volume demonstrate how these language-independent factors motivate grammar and the lexicon in a variety of languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Japanese, and.
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Subject Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Motivation (Psychology) -- Congresses.
Motivation (Psychology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Panther, Klaus-Uwe, 1942-
Radden, Günter.
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (10th : 2007 : Kraków, Poland)
Other Form: Print version: Motivation in grammar and the lexicon. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 9789027223814 (DLC) 2011002400 (OCoLC)697980013
ISBN 9789027287021 (electronic book)
9027287023 (electronic book)
9789027223814
9027223815