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Dirigido a todos los interesados en el lenguaje y la comunicación, este libro expone una introducción a la pragmática entendida precisamente como la disciplina lingüística que estudia el uso del lenguaje, es decir, su utilización en los contextos comunicativos por parte de hablantes y oyentes. La producción e interpretación de mensajes lingüísticos es posible gracias a los mecanismos y estructuras de la lengua, pero también a las convenciones sociales y a los procesos cognitivos en que participa el código verbal. Teniendo en cuenta sus raíces y precedentes, la pragmática se presenta a lo largo de esta obra en su relación con las otras disciplinas lingüísticas (gramática, semántica, sociolingüística, análisis del discurso) y se describe con sus principales áreas (actos de habla, deíxis, inferencias, cortesía…) y con sus consiguientes orientaciones, tanto teóricas como aplicadas, que van desde la pragmaestilística (o pragmática de la variación funcional) hasta la pragmática contrastiva e intercultural -

Pragmatiek --- Pragmática. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmatics --- Language and languages --- Applied linguistics --- Usage --- Language and languages - Usage

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Linguistics --- Structural linguistics. --- Language and languages --- Linguistique structurale --- Langage et langues --- Usage. --- Usage --- Structural linguistics --- Language and languages - Usage

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The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise. The book is important for the advancement of cognitive linguistics because the contributions demonstrate the seriousness of its ambitions to develop into a set of testable linguistic approaches. For the same reason, the volume is a contribution to our understanding of language in general, since it puts a promising modern approach on firmer ground. Assets of the book include the wide range of linguistic phenomena studied (individual concepts, fundamental semantic problems like vagueness and polysemy, grammatical issues incl. gender and tense, collocations, constructions and speech acts) and the scope of applied perspectives including lexicographical, computational, developmental and critical discourse ones. The languages investigated are English, German, Dutch, Polish and Italian. Common to the contributions is the desire to bring together observed patterns of linguistic usage with concepts and models established in cognitive linguistics. In addition, all contributions have an empirical basis and emphasize the need to rely on a sound methodology. The linguistic phenomena investigated span the range from the lexico-conceptual and collocational level to constructions, grammatical categories and functions. Two complementary perspectives of language and cognition are represented in the volume: In one group, the established methods of psycholinguistic experimentation, quantitative corpus analysis and computational simulation are exploited to demonstrate the viability and to increase the plausibility of cognitive-linguistic thinking. The second group tests well-known cognitive-linguistic approaches like Conceptual Metaphor Theory, the Theory of Idealized Cognitive Models and Construction Grammar against authentic data demonstrating their applicability and explanatory potential. Both groups include contributions reaching beyond the scope of traditional cognitive-linguistic topics, e.g. by taking a critical stance of reductionist cognitive thinking. The volume is of interest to cognitive linguists, psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, lexicologists, and lexicographers.

Psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Usage --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Cognitieve linguïstiek --- #KVHA:Corpuslinguïstiek --- #KVHA:Semantiek --- -Usage. --- Language and languages -- Grammars. --- Language and languages -- Usage. --- Language and languages. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Usage. --- Grammars. --- Linguistic usage --- Usage, Linguistic --- Grammar --- Grammar, Polyglot --- Polyglot grammar --- Grammars --- Language and languages - Usage --- Cognitive linguistics. --- language acquisition. --- lexicology. --- semantics.

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Atter og fram, det er lige langt; - ud og ind, det er lige trangt!
Forward and back, and it's just as far. Out and in, and it's just as strait.
Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt.

Contrastive linguistics --- Corpora (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistic usage --- Usage, Linguistic --- Corpus-based analysis (Linguistics) --- Corpus linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Data processing. --- Usage. --- Grammars --- Contrastive linguistics - Data processing --- Language and languages - Usage

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Language demonstrates structure while at the same time showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while still exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and their variance. Joan Bybee outlines a theory of language that directly addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, and what we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and language change which has implications for cognitive processing and language evolution.

Language and languages --- Cognitive grammar --- Linguistic change --- Usage --- #KVHA:Cognitieve linguistiek --- Linguistc change. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Linguistic change. --- Usage. --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- 800 --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Linguistic usage --- Usage, Linguistic --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Grammars --- Grammar --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language and languages - Usage