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Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of Alan Cienki’s Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics considers what it means to apply different approaches from within this field to the dynamic, multimodal combination of speech and gesture. The lectures encompass such main paradigms as blending and mental space theory, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, construction and cognitive grammars, image schemas, and mental simulation in relation to semantics. Overall, Alan Cienki shows that taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new issues and questions for theoretical models in cognitive linguistics. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.

Cognitive psychology --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Language and languages. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Speech and gesture.

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The object of this work will be a selected group of prepositions in English, Polish and Russian which can express spatial relationships? This study focuses on "everyday" usage of the languages in question.

Cienki --- Cognition --- English --- Linguistik --- Philologie --- Polen --- Polish --- Prepositions --- Russian --- Russland --- Semantics --- Slavische Sprachwissenschaft --- Spatial

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This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture - a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.

Gesture. --- Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Mudra --- Acting --- Body language --- Elocution --- Movement (Acting) --- Oratory --- Sign language --- Gesture --- Metaphor --- #KVHA:Amerikaanse gebarentaal --- #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie --- Semiotics --- Lexicology. Semantics

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The popularity of Political Discourse Analysis has attracted many metaphor researchers to study metaphor use in framing political perspectives. Still, one fundamental research question remains as to how metaphoricity changes in political discourse.This book focuses on the understudied U.S.-China trade discourses, which specifically concern trade relationships in the Clinton-Jiang era (1993-1997) and the Trump-Xi era (2017-2021). Based on a large governmental corpus of about 6,000,000 words, this book presents the first transdisciplinary investigation of metaphoricity change in U.S.-China trade discourse, from both static and dynamic perspectives. While offering a systematic protocol of cross-linguistic metaphor identification, the static view captures changes in source domains and verbal metaphors across time, languages, and political genres. Outlining a new transdisciplinary model of YinYang Dynamics of Metaphoricity, the dynamic view examines the nature, feature, form, pattern, and function of metaphoricity activation in governmental texts. Besides its cognitive linguistic and corpus linguistic approaches, this research also adopts angles of Critical Discourse Analysis, international relations, and political history. From multidisciplinary perspectives, it investigates the political implications of metaphoricity change, thus shedding light on U.S.-China trade interactions.This book will appeal to anyone interested in variations of political metaphors in governmental discourse. It is also a helpful source for those who are concerned with theoretical and methodological explorations in political metaphor research. As the first multidisciplinary work on both metaphoricity change and discourse of international relations, this book will attract readers who are keen to understand the relationship between metaphoricity transformation and global political society.

Foreign trade. International trade --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- China --- United States of America