In the chapter, I describe the main features of what can be taken to be “standard” conceptual
metaphor theory (as proposed by Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999), alongside what can be …

The concept of frames or framing, especially cast as “frame analysis,” has an established
history in public policy. Taking off from the work of Donald Schön and Martin Rein, we …

What is the appropriate conceptual structure involved in conceptual metaphors? Various
authors offer a large number of terms to discuss the issue. While domain is the most …

This book is an application of relevance theory, a cognitive pragmatics theory of human
communication, to different types of humorous discourse (jokes, stand-up monologues …

Политическая метафорология возникла в процессе взаимодействия двух ведущих
направлений современного языкознания–метафорологии и политической лингвистики …

In der Textlinguistik stehen heute zahlreiche analytische Orientierungen mehr oder weniger
unverbunden neben einander. Diese unbefriedigende Situation ist der Ausgangspunkt für …

Cognitive linguists view language as a social artifact shaped by learning and cultural
transmission, and emphasize the role of categorization in shaping our linguistic capacities …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

During the last decades, research in rhetoric, literary studies and linguistics in Germany
pursued different goals. However, recent interdisciplinary investigations on the topic of …

In this paper we describe the cognitive model that governs the forms and uses of the cyclic
gesture, recurrent in a corpus of spontaneous German conversations. The gesture shows a …