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  • The Language of Memes

    Patterns of Meaning Across Image and Text

    by Barbara Dancygier, Lieven Vandelanotte ...
    Internet memes have been studied widely for their role in establishing and maintaining social relationships, and shaping public opinion, online. However, they are also a prominent and fast evolving multimodal genre, one which calls for an in-depth linguistic analysis. This book, the first of its kind, develops the analytical tools necessary to describe and understand contemporary 'image-plus-text' ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Figurative Language

    by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Viewpoint in Language

    A Multimodal Perspective

    Edited by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    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 ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Language of Stories

    A Cognitive Approach

    by Barbara Dancygier ...
    How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as linguistic artifacts, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD