Imagery in Language - Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ronald W. Langacker

The volume is dedicated to Professor Ronald W. Langacker in appreciation of his pioneering work in Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the concept of Imagery in Language - as proposed by Ronald W. Langacker in his seminal Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. It is thus to be seen in the context of the rise and development of this new paradigm in language studies. To honour Professor Langacker's scholarly achievements and his intellectual contribution to the science of language, on 1st of October 2003 the Senate of the University of Lódz awarded him the degree of the doctor honoris causa of Lódz University. The papers in this volume, describing imagery in general language, rhetoric and poetics, were presented at the conference Imagery in Language organized in Lódz on 28-30 September 2003 to celebrate this event. This publication also includes a number of invited papers.

List of contents

Contents: Ronald W. Langacker's publications - Ronald W. Langacker - The first 40 years - The cognitive basis of linguistic structuring - Aspects of construal in rhetoric and poetics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Alina Kwiatkowska (Editor), Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9783631531105
• ISBN: 978-3-631-53110-5
• No. of pages: 810
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 43 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 1050 g
• Series: Lodz Studies in Language; Lódz Studies in Language; Lodz Studies in Language
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics