Applications of Cognitive Linguistics Volume 31: Change of Paradigms—New Paradoxes

In Paradigm and Paradox , Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today. Change of Paradigms New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work, exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand strong, which new questions have arisen and which ensuing new paradoxes need to be addressed. It thus reveals how Cognitive Linguistics has developed and diversified over the past decades. Honorary Ren Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans' experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Table of contents Introduction. Change of paradigms – New paradoxes. Recontextualizing language and linguistics Part One: Language in the context of cognition Instru-mentality. The embodied dialectics of instrument and mind The dynamics of a usage-based approach Part Two: Usage-based lexical semantics and semantic change Semasiology and onomasiology. Empirical questions between meaning, naming and context Education in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Exploring diachronic change in a semantic field Bueno, a window opener How does context produce metaphors?. A contextualist view of conceptual metaphor theory Blending effects in bahuvrihi compounds Metonymic relationships among actuality, modality, evaluation, and emotion Part Three: Recontextualizing grammar On the origins of cognitive grammar The linguistic representations of agency in causal chains Much in all as: The anatomy of a strange expression Descriptive and discursive organization in cognitive grammar Part Four: The importance of socio-cultural context Language in the mind and in the community Cognitive sociolinguistics, language systems and the fall of empires Cultural cognitive models of language variation. Romanticism and rationalism in language policy debates about the unity/diversity of European and Brazilian Portuguese Part Five: Methodological challenges of contextual parameters Four challenges for usage-based linguistics The role of quantitative methods in cognitive linguistics. Corpus and experimental data on (relative) frequency and contingency of words and constructions Does gender-related variation still have an effect, even when topic and (almost) everything else is controlled? Recontextualizing language complexity A quantitative analysis of qualitative free response data. Paradox or new paradigm? Index Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans' experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

In Paradigm and Paradox, Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today. Change of Paradigms –New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work, exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand strong, which new questions have arisen and which ensuing new paradoxes need to be addressed. It thus reveals how Cognitive Linguistics has developed and diversified over the past decades.