Practical theories and empirical practice : a linguistic perspective
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Practical theories and empirical practice : a linguistic perspective
（Human cognitive processing, v. 40）
John Benjamins, c2012
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There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an 'empirical science'. This volume argues for a nuanced view, highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of fact complement each other in linguistic research. Its contributions - ranging from experimental studies in psychology via linguistic fieldwork and cross-linguistic comparisons to the application of formal and logical approaches to language - exemplify the mutual relationship between empirical and theoretical work. The volume illustrates how selected topics are addressed by different contributions and methodological stances. Topics include the cognitive grounding of language, social cognition and the construction of meaning in interaction, and, closely related, pragmatics from a typological perspective and beyond. Anyone interested in these topics and more generally in meta-theoretical considerations will find great value in this volume.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of contributors
- 2. Preface
- 3. Practical theories and empirical practice - facets of a complex interaction (by Schalley, Andrea C.)
- 4. Part I. Empirical practice
- 5. The embodiment of linguistic meaning: Key findings from psychology and neuroscience (by Bach, Patric)
- 6. Infants' encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure (by Thoermer, Claudia)
- 7. Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila: Stability and change in two lexical domains of sensory perception (by Senft, Gunter)
- 8. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction: Spontaneous vs. elicited data (by Bohnemeyer, Jurgen)
- 9. Many languages, one knowledge base: Introducing a collaborative ontolinguistic research tool (by Schalley, Andrea C.)
- 10. Part II. Practical theories
- 11. Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms (by Evans, Nicholas)
- 12. Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles: Some reflections on metadiscourse and typology (by Behrens, Leila)
- 13. Does Searle's challenge affect chances for approximating assertion and quotative modal wollen? (by Gartner, Hans-Martin)
- 14. The pragmatics of argumentation: Commitment to implicit premises (by Becker, Thomas)
- 15. Implicature of complex sentences in error models (by Benz, Anton)
- 16. The semantics of functional spaces (by Pustejovsky, James)
- 17. Language index
- 18. Name index
- 19. Subject index
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