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Analogy and Contrast in Language
Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics
Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately. This volume seeks to bridge that gap and in doing so it brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research in the field. The chapters in this book examine analogy and contrast across a variety of languages (English, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Russian), for different language phenomena (constructions, lexical semantics, morphology, sentence structure, text organization), and with the use of various methods (corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, experimental methods, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis). This state-of-the-art research presented in the book should be of interest to specialists within Cognitive Linguistics, corpus linguistics, construction grammar, discourse analysis, translation studies, metaphor research, and cross-cultural research.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 73] 2022. xi, 442 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 30 September 2022
Published online on 30 September 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Editors and contributors | pp. ix–x
- Foreword | pp. xi–11
- Introduction: Analogy and contrast in language: Theoretical and empirical insights from Cognitive LinguisticsKarolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel | pp. 1–12
- Part I. From theory to data-driven research
- Chapter 1. What could be more fundamental?Ronald W. Langacker | pp. 15–46
- Chapter 2. Diagrammatic iconicity and rendering time in a narrative text: Analogies and contrastsElżbieta Tabakowska (emerita) | pp. 47–60
- Chapter 3. Analogy in action: Space-time, perspectival frames, cultural modelsAdam Głaz | pp. 61–82
- Chapter 4. ‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend.’: Similarities motivated by contrasts in Hungarian sentence structureAndrás Imrényi | pp. 83–114
- Chapter 5. Contrast and analogy in aspectual distinctions of English and Polish: The case of think predicatesIwona Kokorniak | pp. 115–156
- Part II. From data-driven research to theory
- Chapter 6. From nouns to verbs: Analogy across parts of speechLaura A. Janda | pp. 159–192
- Chapter 7. Complex prepositions of analogy and contrast in English: A corpus-based analysisAnatol Stefanowitsch | pp. 193–244
- Chapter 8. Emergent categories: Quantifying analogically derived similarity in usageDylan Glynn | pp. 245–282
- Chapter 9. A case of constructional contamination in English: Modified noun phrases influence adverb placement in the passiveMartin Hilpert and Susanne Flach | pp. 283–302
- Chapter 10. Analogy and contrast at the morphology-syntax interface: A case study of new Russian [N[N]] compoundsSvetlana Sokolova | pp. 303–340
- Chapter 11. Modeling constructional variation: A multifactorial account of the contrast in construal between analogical causative constructions in PolishKarolina Krawczak | pp. 341–370
- Chapter 12. Moving reader or moving text? Contrasts and analogies between metaphors of time and text organization in FinnishTuomas Huumo and Krista Teeri-Niknammoghadam | pp. 371–404
- Chapter 13. Contrasts and analogies in cluster categories of emotion concepts in monolingual and cross-linguistic contexts: contemptBarbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson | pp. 405–438
- Index | pp. 439–442
“It is indeed a seminal contribution to Cognitive Linguistics since the diversity of theories and research methods is precisely the vitality of Cognitive Linguistics and at the same time, it is cognitive capacity that makes cognitive linguistics cognitive. With its cutting-edge ideas and insightful guidance, this volume will no doubt exert a far-reaching influence on the development of cognitive linguistics.”
Zhou Geng & Shuqiong Wu, Sichuan International Studies University, in Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024).
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