Louis Goossens

List of John Benjamins publications in which Louis Goossens is involved.

Titles

By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective

Louis Goossens, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Johan Vanparys

This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored: Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 33] 1995. xii, 254 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.

Goossens, Louis 2022 Historical linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 710–718 | Chapter

Goossens, Louis 2010 Historical linguistics Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives, Fried, Mirjam, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 100–109 | Article

Goossens, Louis 2007 The modal auxiliaries of English, π-operators in Functional Grammar and “grounding” Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie, Hannay, Mike and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 159–173 | Article

In this contribution it is argued that in spite of their homogeneousmorphological and syntactic properties, there are compelling reasons to differentiate the central modal auxiliaries of English with respect to grammaticalization. The main differential semantic criterion comes from their… read more

Goossens, Louis 2004 Review of Traugott & Dasher (2002): Regularity in semantic change Functions of Language 11:2, pp. 259–268 | Review

Goossens, Louis 1999 Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts Metonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 193–210 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1995 From Three Respectable Horses’ Mouths: Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data Base By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective, Goossens, Louis, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Johan Vanparys, pp. 175–204 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1995 Review of Warner (1993): English Auxiliaries: Structure and History Functions of Language 2:2, pp. 286–289 | Review

Goossens, Louis 1995 Historical linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 323–329 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1995 Metaphonymy: The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic Action By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective, Goossens, Louis, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Johan Vanparys, pp. 159–174 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1993 The Rise of a New Conceptualization Pattern: Old English lippe, weler, tunge, and muþ with Reference to Linguistic Action Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 141–154 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1992 Graded Predicationality, Semanticization and BE in a Functional Grammar of English Predication, De Caluwé, Johan, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe (eds.), pp. 53–73 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1992 Review of Davidsen-Nielsen (1990): Tense and Mood in English. A Comparison with Danish Studies in Language 16:2, pp. 486–491 | Review

Goossens, Louis 1990 Framing the linguistic communication scene: ask vs. acsian and biddan Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 191–210 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1985 Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English: CWEþAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL compared Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 149–170 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1982 On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in English Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 74–97 | Article

Goossens, Louis 1982 Say: Focus on the Message The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL, Dirven, René †, Louis Goossens, Yvan Putseys and Emma Vorlat, pp. 85–132 | Article