Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation
ISBN: 9781443842860
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Language/ Linguistics;

OC This volume takes up the challenge of assessing the present state of Cognitive Linguistics on the cutting edge between universality and variability. Claims of universality have never been explicitly articulated by cognitive linguists but studies on embodiment, motivation and cognitive processes such as metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual integration rely on general cognitive abilities and hence tacitly assume cross-linguistic commonalities. Variability Otherin a language and across languages h..."


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