Causal categories in discourse and cognition
edited by Ted Sanders, Eve Sweetser.
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York, NY : : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (260 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front matter; Table of contents; Introduction: Causality in language and cognition - what causal connectives and causal verbs reveal about the way we think; Causality, cognition and communication: A mental space analysis of subjectivity in causal connectives; Causal Connectives in Dutch Biblical Translations A cognitive linguistic approach; Causes and consequences: Evidence from Polish, English, and Dutch; Categories of subjectivity in Dutch causal connectives: a usage-based analysis; Causes for causatives: the case of Dutch doen and laten. - Causal categories in discourse - Converging evidence from language use Back matter. - All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. The book discusses parameters of categorization that shape the use of causal connectives and auxiliary verbs across languages like English, Dutch and Polish. Convergence of linguistic, corpus-linguistic and psycholinguistic methodologies appears crucial in determining cognitive categories of causality.
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| ISBN | 9783110224412
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