Motivation in Language
Studies in honor of Guenter Radden
Published on 17. July 2003
Book
Hardback
403 pages
978-90-272-4755-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between form and meaning play a role. As such, the contributions in Section 1 examine selected aspects of motivation in the continuum between lexicon and grammar; the contributions in Section 2 study the factors underlying the range of (semantic) variants that attach to a particular lexical item; and papers in Section 3 look at motivating factors in linguistic items situated in and conceptualizing the socio-cultural domain. A smaller set of papers in Section 4 point to the role which learner motivation and attitudinal motivation may play in applied linguistics domains.
Reviews / Votes
[...] there is no doubt that the volume under review constitutes a major addition to the study of non-arbitrary aspects of linguistic phenomena and that it will be of interest not only for cognitive linguists but also for a wider audience of functional and typological linguists. It is well worth reading, and re-reading, because it offers a unique insight into the multifacted nature of the phenomenon of motivation. -- Mario Brdar, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia, in Jezikoslovye Vol. 8:2 (2007)More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
675 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4755-1 (9789027247551)
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Content
1. Editors' foreword; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. In search of conceptual structure: Five milestones in the work of Gunter Radden (by Dirven, Rene); 4. Section 1: Motivation in lexico-grammar; 5. Extreme subjectification: English tense and modals (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 6. Meaning and context (by Taylor, John R.); 7. Lexical rules vs. constructions: A false dichotomy (by Croft, William A.); 8. Schemas and lexical blends (by Kemmer, Suzanne); 9. Valency and diathesis (by Vater, Heinz); 10. To get or to be? Use and acquisition of get- versus be-passives: Evidence from children and adults (by Meints, Kerstin); 11. Section 2: Motivation in the lexicon; 12. Space and time in Polish: The preposition za and the verbal prefix za- (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 13. Functions of the preposition kuom in Dholuo (by Reh, Mechthild); 14. Grammaticalization of postpositions in German (by di Meola, Claudio); 15. Metonymy in cognitive linguistics: An analysis and a few modest proposals (by Barcelona, Antonio); 16. Section 3: Motivation in socio-cultural conceptualizations; 17. How language is conceptualized and metaphorized in Japanese: An essay in language ideology (by Ikegami, Yoshihiko); 18. The ever-stifling essentialism: Language and conflict in Poland (1991-1993) (by Janicki, Karol); 19. Motion metaphorized in the economic domain (by Jakel, Olaf); 20. Section 4: Motivation in applied linguistics; 21. English in the world and English in the school (by Edmondson, Willis J.); 22. Attitudes towards Luganda, Kiswahili, English, and mother tongue as media of instruction in Uganda (by Sprenger-Tasch, Meike); 23. Style labels in monolingual English learner's dictionaries (by Hunig, Wolfgang); 24. Name Index; 25. Subject Index