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Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation
The series provides a comprehensive forum for publications in linguistics covering the entire range of language, including its variation and variability in space and time, its acquisition, theories on the nature of human language in general, and descriptions of individual languages. The series welcomes publications addressing the state of the art of linguistics as a whole or of specific subfields, and publications that offer challenging new approaches to linguistics. --
Word-Formation
This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.
What’s in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia
Numerous linguists of various orientations, translators and literary scholars share an interest in text. As students of language with very diverse interests and aims, they ask themselves, if only subconsciously, the following questions: What kind(s) of texts do we study? Why do we study them? What are we looking for? What do and don’t we find? What do we do with whatever we do find? What does it tell us about language, its speakers or the human mind? Generally, what is (a) text for me as a linguist and/or translator? In the present volume, the questions are brought onto the level of the conscious and addressed by several practitioners in the fields of linguistics and translation – contributions with a literary slant also have a linguistic orientation. Although ultimate answers to these questions may not exist, the ambition of the book is to help the reader appreciate the richness of text and the variety of texts as a treasure-trove for scholars representing multifarious approaches to language.
Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy?
In most grammatical models, hierarchical structuring and dependencies are considered as central features of grammatical structures, an idea which is usually captured by the notion of “head” or “headedness”. While in most models, this notion is more or less taken for granted, there is still much disagreement as to the precise properties of grammatical heads and the theoretical implications that arise of these properties. Moreover, there are quite a few linguistic structures that pose considerable challenges to the notion of “headedness”. Linking to the seminal discussions led in Zwicky (1985) and Corbett, Fraser, & Mc-Glashan (1993), this volume intends to look more closely upon p...
Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a representative selection of the papers presented at the Third ELC International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3), held in Santiago de Compostela, 21–22 September 2012. The book is structured into four parts. Part I comprises syntactic studies on the auxiliary verb get in Indian English, the grammar of verbs capable of occurring with or without an object in Contemporary English, and isolated if-clauses. Part II includes two papers dealing with word formation patterns and with crosslinguistic influences on motion expression in English and Spanish. The studies in Part III discuss topics related to second language acquisition, such as the difficulties encountered by Spanish speakers in learning English pronunciation, verbal morphology production by Japanese learners of English, and the effects of elicitation on students’ production of English past tense forms. The papers in Part IV revolve around discourse analysis and psycholinguistics, addressing topics such as automatic sentiment detection, perspectival construal patterns in language and cognition, and the effect of emotional valence on disambiguation processes.
Handbuch Werberhetorik
This volume provides a broad overview of rhetoric phenomena in advertising, taking into account historical aspects of advertising and the systematic dimensions of rhetoric, various advertising genres and diverse concepts of ‘rhetoric’. It focuses on commercial and political advertising, but also devotes specific chapters to other advertising domains (e.g., in society, culture, academia, and sport).
The Dynamic Lexicon of English
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This study investigates the interrelation between use, meaning and the mind as a central issue of contact-induced linguistic variation and change, using the influence of French, Spanish, German and Yiddish on English as case studies. It relies on innovative methodological approaches, including the use of an integrative, socio-cognitive model of the dynamic lexicon, to describe borrowing processes and their linguistic outcomes. The multitude of socio-cultural contexts relevant to the introduction of the various borrowings since the nineteenth century has been reconstructed. This implies the identification of borrowings reflecting connections of linguistic features and culturally embedded attitudes. Taking the effects of cognitive and social factors on conventionalization and entrenchment processes into account, this study makes an original contribution to existing research.
Wortbildung Diamedial
Das Buch widmet sich den Zusammenhängen zwischen Wortbildungen als morphologische Konstruktionen einerseits und geschriebenen wie gesprochenen Texten als pragmatisch-kommunikative Einheiten andererseits. Als Datengrundlage der quantitativen und qualitativen Korpusstudien dienen monologische und dialogische Textsorten, die das gesamte Kontinuum konzeptioneller Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit abdecken (z.B. Zeitungsbericht, Bundestagsrede, YouTube-Kommentar, Hochschulprüfungsgespräch, WhatsApp-Chat, Alltagsgespräch). Die Arbeit deckt auf, wie Wortbildung an der Konstitution von Texten und der Prägung von Textsorten beteiligt ist, welche mentalen Prozesse bei der Rezeption von Wortbildun...
Remotivierung
In diesem Band untersuchen Forscher/-innen aus der germanistischen Linguistik Remotivierungsprozesse im Deutschen auf den Gebieten der Morphologie, der Wortbildung, der Phraseologie sowie der Pragmatik und diskutieren deren theoretische Einordnung im Rahmen von Grammatikalisierungs- und Lexikalisierungsprozessen sowie deren Gegenprozessen. Dieser Band steht wie auch der 2010 von Rüdiger Harnisch herausgegebene und ebenfalls in der Reihe LIT erschienene Band Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung – Typen formaler Resegmentierung und semantischer Remotivierung in der Tradition der Passauer Remotivierungsforschung. Ausgehend von morphologischen Forschungen zu Sprachwandelprozessen fällt auf, da...
The Epic Imaginary
This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent ‐ and hence legitimating ‐ stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations....
