Cognitive Linguistics

Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez is Professor at the University of La Rioja, Spain.M. Sandra Peña Cervel is Lecturer at the National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain.

• Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra PeñaIntroduction: As strong as its foundations, as wide as its scopeSection 1. Variety in Unity: Cognitive-Functional Linguistics and Different Routes within CLJan Nuyts Brothers in arms? On the relations between Cognitive and Functional LinguisticsRené Dirven Major strands in Cognitive LinguisticsRonald W. Langacker Construction Grammars: cognitive, radical, and less soSection 2. A Usage-Based Cognitive LinguisticsDirk Geeraerts Lectal variation and empirical data in Cognitive LinguisticsEnrique Bernárdez Social cognition: variation, language, and culture in a cognitive linguistic typologySection 3. A Mental-Process-Oriented Cognitive LinguisticsRaymond W. Gibbs Embodied action in thought and languageFrancisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra Peña Cognitive operations and projection spacesSection 4. A Discourse-Oriented Cognitive LinguisticsGerard Steen Basic Discourse Acts. Towards a psychological theory of discourse segmentationAntonio Barcelona Metonymic chains: metonymy in discourseKlaus-Uwe Panther The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning constructionBrigitte Nerlich Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in British environmental discourse

"In essence, this is a very well-articulated, coherent volume which undoubtedly constitutesa very solid contribution to the field of CL. Moreover, one of its most attractive features is its pursuit of interdisciplinary connections providing a profound and illuminating overview of the whole framework of CL and its connections with neighboring disciplines and subdisciplines. [...] the present volume must be considered exemplary."Ricardo Mairal in: Intercultural Pragmatics 1/2007 "All in all, this is an impressive, "must read" volume that would be appealing to anyone interested in the exploration of fields as varied as theoretical linguistics, cognition, discourse studies, psychology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, which makes the volume particularly attractive to those scholars from different persuasions who are interested in the relevant connection between CL and other theoretical frameworks. It represents a successful effort at multi-disciplinarity and offers, in a complementary fashion, a rich overview of the many threads of discussion on core issues of the current debate in Linguistics. This book is an excellent contribution in terms of the multiple explanatory ways and eclectic variety of perspectives it takes to shed light upon the panoramic state-of-the-art account of research in Cognitive Linguistics, which, to put it with the editors, is "as strong as its foundations, as wide as its scope". This book is a goldmine."Annalisa Baicchi in: Linguist List 18.241, 2007