Grounding - The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference

This compilation of invited contributions, gathering an international collection of cognitive and functional linguists, offers an outline of original empirical work carried out in grounding theory. Grounding is a central notion in cognitive grammar that addresses the linking of semantic content to contextual factors that constitute the subjective ground (or situation of speech). The volume illustrates a growing concern with the application of cognitive grammar to constructions establishing deixis and reference. It proposes a double focus on nominal and clausal grounding, as well as on ways of integrating analyses across these domains.

About the author

Frank Brisard is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fund for Scientific Research, University of Antwerpen, Belgium

Product details

• Assisted by: Fran Brisard (Editor), Frank Brisard (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9783110173697
• ISBN: 978-3-11-017369-7
• No. of pages: 475
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 38 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 836 g
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research (CLR); Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics