Historical Cognitive Linguistics

by Kathryn Allan and Heli Tissari

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311022643X
• ISBN13: 9783110226430
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary