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This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters address a range of issues from general questions about ontology epistemology and methodology to aspects of particular subfields (such as semantics and historical linguistics) or phenomena (such as construal and code-switching). The volume aims to further our understanding of language and linguistics as well as to encourage further discussion on the metatheory of linguistics. Due to the fundamental nature of the issues under discussion this volume will be of interest to all linguists regardless of their background or fields of expertise and to philosophers concerned with language or other normative domains.

Due to the Treaty of Trianon – which was signed at the end of World War 1 in 1920 – Hungary lost two thirds of its former territory as well as the inhabitants of these areas. The book aims to reveal why the treaty still plays a role in Hungarian national identity construction by studying the alternative conceptualization of the treaty and its consequences. The cognitive linguistic research explores Hungarian politicians’ conceptual system about Trianon with special interest on conceptual metaphors. It also analyzes the factors that may motivate the emergence of the conceptual system as well as its synchronic diversity and diachronic changes. The monograph provides a niche insight into the conceptual basis of how contemporary citizens of Hungary interpret the treaty of Trianon and its consequences. The book will be of interest to cognitive and cultural linguists cultural anthropologists or any professionals working on national identity construction.

This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this approach may seem rather obvious to non-linguists it is indeed a novel claim in contemporary linguistic theory. In order to provide technical analyses of Korean case phenomena such as multiple nominative/accusative non-nominative subject and adverbial case constructions this book adopts an independently established descriptive construct known as reference point in the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author demonstrates that the notion of reference point not only explains a substantially wider set of data but also leads to a more reasonable generalization. The intended readership of this book are researchers who are interested in case phenomena irrespective of their theoretical orientation.

Décio Torres Cruz approaches connections between literature and cinema partly through issues of gender and identity and partly through issues of reality and representation. In doing so he looks at the various ways in which people have thought of the so-called cinematic novel tracing the development of that genre concept not only in the French ciné-roman and film scenarios but also in novels from the United States England France and Latin America. The main tendency he identifies is the blending of the cinematic novel with pop literature through allusions to Pop Art and other postmodern cultural trends. His prime exhibits are a number of novels by the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth; Heartbreak Tango; The Buenos Aires Affair; Kiss of the Spider Woman; and Pubis angelical. Bringing in suggestive sociocultural and psychoanalytical considerations Cruz shows how in Puig’s hands the cinematic novel resulted in a pop collage of different texts films discourses and narrative devices which fused reality and imagination into dream and desire.

This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores how some traditional print genres have become digital how some genres have evolved into new digital hybrids and how and why new genres have emerged and are emerging in response to new rhetorical exigences and communicative demands. Because social actions are in constant change and ensuing from this genres evolve faster than ever it is important to gain insight into the interrelations between old genres and new genres and the processes underpinning the construction of new genre sets chains and assemblages for communicating scientific research to both expert and diversified audiences. In examining scientific genres on the Internet this book seeks to illustrate the increasing diversification of genre ecologies and their underlying social disciplinary and individual agendas.

The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a “fetishizing process” as Graham Huggan has called it which separates a “first world” from a “third world” the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the “exotic” to the comparatively “familiar” space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples of literatures and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and in so doing to make a significant critical intervention.

Heritage languages such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles are non-dominant languages often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language contact perspective: we consider heritage languages from the perspective of their history their structural properties and their interaction with other surrounding languages.

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality social relationships and collective identity. If language culture and cognition are major roads this book is the junction that unites them by arguing that selfhood occurs at their interface. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to unpack manifestations and perceptions of ‘self’ in the contemporary Chinese diaspora discourse from the perspectives of Sociolinguistics Cognitive Linguistics and the newly developed Cultural Linguistics. This book not only discusses empirical and theoretical issues on the conceptualisation and communication of social identity in a cross-cultural context it also reveals how traditional and modern ideas in Chinese culture are interacting with those of other world cultures. Considering the power of language enduring and emerging beliefs and stances that permeate these speakers’ views on their social being and outlooks on life impart their significance in cross-cultural communication and pragmatics.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>As of January 2023 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth century with essays not only on Ben Jonson but also on university drama on grammar school drama and on humanist literary taste. Part II responds to his pioneering flights of culture-imagological time-travel to other periods with essays on riddles through the ages on Matthew Arnold’s doubts about Homeric pictorialism and on anciently comic elements in George Gissing’s urban fiction. Part III celebrates his importance both as scholar and artist for the present day with essays extending imagological analysis to the singer Nick Drake to the avant-garde Danish poet Morten Søkilde and to Sean S. Baker’s film Tangerine plus a climactic celebration of Johnson’s own performances on solo violin and guitar as augmented by self-recording.

Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers within a cognitive-linguistic framework this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language including noun-verb inclusion the conceptual spatialization of actions existential constructions conceptual structures and coherence idioms and metaphors language acquisition of caused motion etc. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The contributions are committed to the principle of “converging evidence” that has been advocated in Cognitive Linguistics since its inception. Some studies in this volume combine introspective methods with theoretical analysis while others rely on corpus-based experimental and neuroscientific methods. Featuring diverse topics and multiple methods this collection will be useful to readers who are interested in the grammatical and conceptual structure of Chinese as well as in the state-of-the-art of Cognitive Linguistics in China.