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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankCognitiveLinguisticsCognitiveLinguisticsarguesthatlanguageisgovernedbygeneralcognitiveprin-ciples,ratherthanbyaspecial-purposelanguagemodule.Thisintroductorytext-booksurveysthefieldofcognitivelinguisticsasadistinctareaofstudy,prese
2、ntingitstheoreticalfoundationsandtheargumentssupportingit.Clearlyorganizedandaccessiblywritten,itprovidesausefulintroductiontotherelationshipbetweenlanguageandcognitiveprocessinginthehumanbrain.Itcoversthemaintop-icslikelytobeencounteredinacourseorseminar,andp
3、rovidesasynthesisofstudyandresearchinthisfast-growingfieldoflinguistics.Theauthorsbeginbyexplainingtheconceptualstructuresandcognitiveprocessesgoverninglinguis-ticrepresentationandbehavior,andgoontoexplorecognitiveapproachestolexicalsemantics,aswellassyntacticr
4、epresentationandanalysis,focusingonthecloselyrelatedframeworksofcognitivegrammarandconstructiongrammar.Thismuch-neededintroductionwillbewelcomedbystudentsinlinguisticsandcognitivescience.williamcroftisProfessorofLinguisticsattheUniversityofManchester,whereheha
5、staughtsince1994.Hisprimaryareasofresearcharetypology,cog-nitivelinguistics,constructiongrammar,languagechangeandverbalsemantics.HehaspreviouslypublishedinthisseriesTypologyandUniversals,1stedition(1990),and2ndedition(2003),andisalsotheauthorofRadicalConstruct
6、ionGrammar(2001).d.alancrusewasSeniorLecturerinLinguisticsattheUniversityofManchester,untilheretiredin2001.Hetaughtsemantics,pragmaticsandpsycholinguistics,andhisprimaryareasofresearcharelexicalsemanticsandmetaphor.HehaspreviouslypublishedinthisseriesLexicalSe
7、mantics(1986),andisalsothejointeditorofHandbookofLexicology(2002).CAMBRIDGETEXTBOOKSINLINGUISTICSGeneraleditors:s.r.anderson,j.bresnan,b.comrie,w.dressler,c.ewen,r.huddleston,r.lass,d.lightfoot,j.lyons,p.h.matthews,r.posner,s.romaine,n.v.smith,n.vincentInthiss
8、eries:p.h.matthewsMorphologySecondeditionb.comrieAspectr.m.kempsonSemanticTheoryt.bynonHistoricalLinguisticsj.allwood,l.-g.andersonando.dahl¨LogicinLinguisticsd.b.fryThePhysicsofSp
