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This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions which are used to express them. Dancygier suggests that the function of prediction is central to the definition of conditionality, and that conditional sentences display certain formal features which correlate to aspects of interpretation. Although the analysis is based primarily on English, it provides a theoretical framework that can be extended cross-linguistically to a broad range of grammatical phenomena. It will be essential reading for scholars and students concerned with the role of conditionals in English and many other languages.

English language --- Conditionals --- Sentences --- Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- -Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- English language. --- English language - Conditionals. --- English Language --- Conditionals. --- Sentences. --- -802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- Conditional clauses --- Conditional constructions --- Conditional sentences --- Hypothetical clauses --- Protasis --- Konditionalsatz. --- Englisch --- Konditionalsatz --- Englisch. --- Grammatik --- 802.0-56 --- -English language --- -802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Mood --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Grammar --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- English language - Conditionals --- English language - Sentences --- Acqui 2006

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What makes us talk about viewpoint and perspective in linguistic analyses and in literary texts, as well as in landscape art? Is this shared vocabulary marking real connections between the disparate phenomena? This volume argues that human cognition is not only rooted in the human body, but also inherently 'viewpointed' as a result; consequently, so are language and communication. Dancygier and Sweetser bring together researchers who do not typically meet on common ground: analysts of narrative and literary style, linguists examining the uses of grammatical forms in signed and spoken languages, and analysts of gesture accompanying speech. Using models developed within cognitive linguistics, the book uncovers surprising functional similarities across various communicative forms, arguing for specific cognitive underpinnings of such correlations. What emerges is a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint and a groundbreaking methodology for investigating communicative choices across various modalities and discourse contexts.

Psycholinguistics --- Pragmatics --- Language and languages --- Perspective (Linguistics) --- Speech and gesture --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Stylistique --- Focus (Linguistique) --- Parole et gestes --- Discours littéraire --- Grammaire cognitive --- Style --- Psychological aspects --- Aspect psychologique --- Subjectivity (Linguistics) --- Cognition --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- Cognitive grammar --- Speech and gesture. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Psychological aspects. --- Linguistics --- General. --- Perspective (Linguistics). --- Perspective (linguistics). --- Discourse analysis, literary. --- Language arts & disciplines --- Discours littéraire --- Gesture and language --- Gesture and speech --- Language and gesture --- Gesture --- Focalization (Linguistics) --- Perspectivity (Linguistics) --- Point of view (Linguistics) --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Style&delete& --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language and languages - Style - Psychological aspects

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Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space-building processes underlying conditional thinking and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressing conditionality. Using a broad range of attested English conditional constructions, the book examines inter-constructional relationships. Within the framework of Mental Spaces Theory, shared parameters of meaning are shown to be relevant to conditional constructions generally, as well as related temporal and causal constructions. This significant contribution to the field will be welcomed by a wide range of researchers in theoretical and cognitive linguistics.

801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Conditionals. --- Cognitive grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Conditionals (Grammar) --- Hypothetical clauses (Grammar) --- Protasis (Grammar) --- Cognitive linguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- Conditionals --- Conditional clauses --- Conditional constructions --- Conditional sentences --- Hypothetical clauses --- Protasis --- Mood --- Sentences --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Cognitive grammar. --- Semantics. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Conditionals.

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In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts - spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse contexts. In this volume, originally published as a special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010), the contributors, a mix of established and emerging authors in the field, analyse broadcast and print journalism, argumentative scientific discourse, radio lectures on music, and the main

Discourse analysis. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics