Andreas Langlotz

List of John Benjamins publications in which Andreas Langlotz is involved.

Titles

Creating Social Orientation Through Language: A socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning

Andreas Langlotz

This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 17] 2015. xix, 366 pp.

Idiomatic Creativity: A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English

Andreas Langlotz

This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 17] 2006. xi, 325 pp.

Article

Langlotz, Andreas and Danièle Klapproth Muazzin 2014 Unveiling the phantom of the "Islamic takeover": A critical, cognitive-linguistic analysis of the discursive perpetuation of an Orientalist The Expression of Inequality in Interaction: Power, dominance, and status, Pishwa, Hanna and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 105–141 | Article

This paper examines the linguistic and pictorial representation of Muslims and Islam in a Swiss right-wing populist party’s campaign for a federal minaret ban. Using a methodology that combines Conceptual Metaphor Theory with Critical Discourse Analysis we explore two interacting levels of the… read more