: Ted Sanders, Eve Sweetser
: Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110224429
: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 177.60
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 259
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All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. The book discusses parameters of categorization that shape the use of causal connectives and auxiliary verbs across languages like English, Dutch and Polish. Convergence of linguistic, corpus-linguistic and psycholinguistic methodologies appears crucial in determining cognitive categories of causality.

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Ted Sanders, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands;Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Acknowledgements5
Table of contents7
Introduction: Causality in language and cognition – what causal connectives and causal verbs reveal about the way we think11
Causality, cognition and communication: A mental space analysis of subjectivity in causal connectives29
Causal Connectives in Dutch Biblical Translations A cognitive linguistic approach71
Causes and consequences: Evidence from Polish, English, and Dutch101
Categories of subjectivity in Dutch causal connectives: a usage-based analysis129
Causes for causatives: the case of Dutch doen and laten183
Causal categories in discourse – Converging evidence from language use215
Index257