René Dirven †

List of John Benjamins publications in which René Dirven † is involved.

Yearbook

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

ISSN 1572-0268 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0276

Online Resource

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

E‑ISSN 1877‑9638

Titles (13) | Order by:

Cognitive English Grammar

Günter Radden and René Dirven †

Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition

Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1] 2004. xii, 277 pp.

Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther

This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 243] 2003. xxvi, 403 pp.

Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie

Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. This volume shows that descriptive tools which cognitive linguistics developed for the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 205] 2001. vi, 267 pp.

Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven †, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu

Together with its sister volume on Descriptive Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalised… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 204] 2001. vi, 301 pp.

Evidence for Linguistic Relativity

Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 198] 2000. xxii, 240 pp.

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1 (1999)] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.

The Cultural Context in Business Communication

Edited by Susanne Niemeier, Charles P. Campbell and René Dirven †

The Cultural Context in Business Communication focuses on differences and similarities in business negotiations and written communication in intercultural settings. To set the scene, Edward T. Hall looks back at “culture” as an evolutionary concept and Charles Campbell explains the value of… read more

[Not in series, 87] 1998. vi, 269 pp.

On Conditionals Again

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven †

The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994.Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 143] 1997. viii, 418 pp.

The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation

Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †

Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our… read more

[Not in series, 85] 1997. xviii, 337 pp.

Functionalism in Linguistics

Edited by René Dirven † and Vilém Fried

This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical,… read more

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 20] 1987. xviii, 489 pp.

The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought

Edited by Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven †

This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 29] 1985. iii, 628 pp.

The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL

René Dirven †, Louis Goossens, Yvan Putseys and Emma Vorlat

The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell. More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:6] 1982. vi, 186 pp.

Articles (33) | Order by:

Dirven, René † 2009 Review of González, Mackenzie & González Álvarez (): Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 319–325 | Review

Dirven, René † 2005 Review of Trudgill (2002): Sociolinguistic Variation and Chance Studies in Language 29:1, pp. 269–273 | Review

Dirven, René † 2003 In search of conceptual structure: Five milestones in the work of Günter Radden Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden, Cuyckens, Hubert, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.), pp. xiii–xxvi | Miscellaneous

Dirven, René † 2003 In Memoriam Professor L.K. Engels ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 139/140, pp. 2–5 | Obituary

Dirven, René †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie 2001 Introduction Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches, Dirven, René †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Miscellaneous

Athanasiadou, Angeliki and René Dirven † 2000 Pragmatic Conditionals Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Foolen, Ad and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article

Niemeier, Susanne and René Dirven † 2000 Preface Evidence for Linguistic Relativity, Niemeier, Susanne and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Preface

Dirven, René † 1999 Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata Metonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 275–288 | Article

Athanasiadou, Angeliki and René Dirven † 1997 Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality On Conditionals Again, Athanasiadou, Angeliki and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 61–96 | Article

Dirven, René † 1997 Emotions as cause and the cause of emotions The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation, Niemeier, Susanne and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 55–86 | Article

Dirven, René † 1990 Metaphorical Divergences in the Evolution of Dutch and Afrikaans Diachronic Semantics, Geeraerts, Dirk (ed.), pp. 9–34 | Article

Dirven, René † 1988 Review of (1987): English Language Dictionary ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 79/80, pp. 168–173 | Review

Dirven, René † and John R. Taylor 1988 The conceptualisation of vertical space in English: The case of tall Topics in Cognitive Linguistics, Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida (ed.), pp. 379–402 | Article

Dirven, René † and Vilém Fried 1987 By way of introduction Functionalism in Linguistics, Dirven, René † and Vilém Fried (eds.), pp. ix–xviii | Miscellaneous

Dirven, René † 1985 Definition of a Pedagogical Grammar: (seen from a linguist's point of view) ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 67/68, pp. 43–67 | Article

Dirven, René † 1985 Metaphor as a basic means for extending the lexicon The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought, Paprotté, Wolf and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 85–120 | Article

Dirven, René † and Wolf Paprotté 1985 Introduction The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought, Paprotté, Wolf and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. vii–xix | Miscellaneous

Dirven, René † 1983 Review of Thomson & Martinet (198O): A Practical English Grammar ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 62, pp. 94–98 | Review

Dirven, René † 1983 Review of Nehls (): Studies in Descriptive Linguistics ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 62, pp. 89–94 | Review

Dirven, René † 1982 Talk: Linguistic Action Perspectivized as Discourse The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL, Dirven, René †, Louis Goossens, Yvan Putseys and Emma Vorlat, pp. 37–84 | Article

Dirven, René † 1981 Review of PALMER, F.R. (1979) Modality and the English Modals ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 53, pp. 84–88 | Review

Dirven, René † 1981 Words and Scenes in a Didactic Lexicon Woorden in het vreemde-talenonderwijs, pp. 61–83 | Article

On of the major concerns in the tradition of foreign language teaching has been the question of how FL learners learn new vocabulary. This issue comprises two questions, i.e. how are FL words grasped in their complex meanings and how are they remembered? In this paper this dual issue is tackled by… read more

Dirven, René † 1981 Review of RAABE, Horst (1979) Trends in kontrastiver Linguistik ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 53, pp. 81–84 | Review

Dirven, René † 1981 Review of DEKEYSER, X. (1979) Foundations of English Grammar For University students and advanced learners ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 53, pp. 88–92 | Review