Cognitive Processes in Language
Published on 6. January 2012
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-3-631-61840-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains discussions of a broad range of issues of the relation between language and cognition, inspired mainly by recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The individual texts discuss, from various perspectives, conceptual strategies, verbal memory, syntax, semantics, linguistic segmentation, non-verbal communication, linguistic categorization, language learning, speech disorders, as well as applications of Cognitive Linguistics to the study of literature. The volume is a fresh contribution to the growing body of research in Cognitive Linguistics and the study of various cognitive processes in language.
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Persons
Krzysztof Kosecki is an Associate Professor in the Chair of English and General Linguistics, University of Lódz, Poland. He is the author of On the Part-Whole Configuration and Multiple Construals of Salience within a Simple Lexeme (2005), Language, Time, and Biology: A Cognitive Perspective (2008), and editor of Perspectives on Metonymy (2007), published by Peter Lang. His research concentrates on theories of metaphor and metonymy, ethnic stereotypes, theory of translation, the language of legal texts, and cognitive aspects of signed languages.
Janusz Badio teaches English and linguistics in the Department of English, University of Lódz, Poland. His scholarly interests focus on cognitive grammar, production and processing of speech, and experimental methods in language research. He has participated in numerous conferences and published papers in Polish and foreign linguistic magazines. His current project concerns construal and linguistic coding of EFL narratives.
Content
Contents: Kathleen Ashenfelter: Differential Mental Strategies and Reading Patterns for Demographic Surveys: Question Organization and its Impact on Response Strategy - Adriana Biedron/Anna Szczepaniak: Polish Reading Span Test - an Instrument for Measuring Verbal Working Memory Capacity - Anna Baczkowska/Marek Kies: Multimodal Subtitling of Direct Compliments in Polish, Italian and Swedish - Katarzyna Dziwirek: Polish and English <<Double Verb>> Constructions - Agnieszka Kaleta: English Non Finite Complementation Revisited - Iwona Kokorniak/Barbara Konat: Agent or Experiencer? A Search for the Subject Role in the Mental Verb Myslec 'Think' in Polish - Karolina Krawczyk/Dylan Glynn: Context and Cognition. A Corpus-driven Approach to Parenthetical Uses of Mental Predicates - Anna Krysthaliuk: The Image-Schematic Dimension of English Negation - Grzegorz Drozdz: Construing Reality by Means of a Construal Aspect - Distance in English Temporal Constructions - William Sullivan/Sarah Tsiang: Conceptual Chunking, Speech Errors, and Linguistic Architecture - Janusz Badio: Events, Intonation Units and Constructions in Narration - Alan Cienki: Usage Events of Spoken Language and the Symbolic Units We (May) Abstract from Them - Krzysztof Kosecki: Metonymy in Polish Sign Language - Nicole Gotzner: The Role of Language in Color Categorical Perception - Tanja Osswald/Wiebke Petersen: A Formal Interpretation of Concept Types and Type Shifts - Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup: The Problem of Dyslexia in Learning English as a Foreign Language by a Polish Dyslexic Adult - Kamila Ciepiela: The Evolving Prototype of a FL Teacher - Regina Jokel: Rehabilitation of Language in Fluent Progressive Aphasia - Alessio Plebe: A Neural Model of Adjective Acquisition - Agnieszka Pokojska: Images of the Sea and the Desert in W.H. Auden's The Sea and the Mirror and its Polish Translation: a Cognitive Analysis - Antonina Strilchuk: Linguistic and Cognitive Mechanisms of the Formation of Syntactic Constructions of Contemporary American Poetry Texts - Joanna Studzinska: Translating Personification Across Gendered Languages.