Asymmetric Events (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research)
ISBN-13:
9789027238993
ISBN-10:
9027238995
Author:
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format:
Hardcover
301 pages
Category:
Linguistics
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Words, Language & Grammar
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ISBN-13:
9789027238993
ISBN-10:
9027238995
Author:
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format:
Hardcover
301 pages
Category:
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
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Asymmetric Events (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research) (ISBN-13: 9789027238993 and ISBN-10: 9027238995), written by authors
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, was published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in 2008.
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The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones. Asymmetric events are two or more events of unequal status in an utterance and papers in the volume present ways in which a linguistic description of main events in a sentence is different (morphologically, syntactically, discursively) from a description of backgrounded events. The prototypical asymmetries involving perception, cognition, and language are identified in subordination, nominalization and modification of various kinds but they extend to coordinate structures, serial verbs, spatial language and viewing arrangement, as well as part - whole relations. The perspective is broadly cognitive and functional, the authors use different though complementing methodologies, some include corpus data, and the asymmetries are shown to have a variety of stylistic and ideological implications.An in-depth analysis of manifold asymmetries in structure and function of diverse languages makes this volume of interest to linguists of different persuasion, philosophers, cognitive researchers, discourse analysts and students of language and cognition.
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