Cognitive linguistics is one of the fastest growing and influential perspectives on the nature
of language, the mind, and their relationship with sociophysical (embodied) experience. It is …

Natural human interaction requires us to produce and process many different signals,
including speech, hand and head gestures, and facial expressions. These communicative …

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this
textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent …

This book presents one side of a dialogue with Ray Gibbs that we kept going for more than
five years. We had been invited by Bertie Kaal and Günter Radden to write a joint book on …

Cognitive linguistics as represented in this book is an approach to the analysis of natural
language that originated in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the work of George Lakoff …

This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods
in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and …

Fictive Interaction Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company HUMAN P R C ESSI N G C OG
NI TI VE Fictive Interaction The conversation frame in thought, language, and discourse Esther …

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought and practice. It is concerned
with investigating the relationship between human language, the mind and socio-physical …

Modern marketers seek new research paradigms to explore preconscious, nonverbal stages
of consumer behavior, often turning to brain science because some mental processes …

Verbs have two separate levels of meaning. One level reflects the uniqueness of every verb
and is called the “root”. The other level consists of a more austere representation that is …