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Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists Margaret E. Winters

Author: Margaret E. Winters
Date: 01 Jan 2020
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::110 pages
ISBN10: 3030336034
File size: 59 Mb
Dimension: 155x 235mm

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Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists free download . Each of these linguists began developing their own approach to language description and linguistic theory, centered on a particular set of phenomena and Langacker, during this period, began work on his theory of Cognitive Grammar, then dubbed "space grammar." Lakoff was working on a related approach to grammar that came to be dubbed Construction Grammar, as well as a semantic basis for grammar, termed "linguistic gestalts. Three fundamental characteristics of cognitive linguistics can be derived: the primacy of semantics in linguistic analysis, the encyclopedic nature of linguistic Cognitive linguistics is a relatively modern branch of linguistics. It was founded George Lakoff and Ronald Langacker. Lakoff coined the term "cognitive linguistics" in 1987 in his book "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things", one of his most famous writings.

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