484 Tony Veale Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives ≥ 484 Tony Veale Applications of Cognitive Linguistics 1 Editors Gitte Kristiansen Michel Achard Rene´ Dirven Francisco J.Ruiz de Mendoza Iba´n˜ez Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives edited by Gitte Kristiansen Michel Achard Rene´ Dirven Francisco J.Ruiz de Mendoza Iba´n˜ez Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York 484 Tony Veale MoutondeGruyter(formerlyMouton,TheHague) isaDivisionofWalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,Berlin (cid:2)(cid:2) Printedonacid-freepaper whichfallswithin theguidelinesoftheANSI toensurepermanenceanddurability. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Cognitive linguistics : current applications and future perspectives / editedbyGitteKristiansen…[etal.]. p.cm.(cid:2)(Applicationsofcognitivelinguistics;1) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 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Typesetting:DörlemannSatzGmbH&Co.KG,Lemförde PrintedinGermany v Acknowledgements The editors of this volume would like to thank those who made this pub- lication possible. First and foremost we are deeply grateful to Anke Beck for her interest in this project. We also wish to express our gratitude to all the contributors for their in- sights and professionalism – and for complying with strict deadlines in spite of their many other commitments. Finally, a sincere thanks goes to Birgit Sievert, Wolfgang Konwitschny, Monika Wendland, Julia Ulrich, Ursula Kleinhenz, Jennifer Mand and Kirstin Börgen at Mouton de Gruyter for their efficient help and fruitful cooperation. vi vii Table of contents Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v List of contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction: Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Part one: The cognitive base Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Dirk Geeraerts Polysemy and the lexicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 John R. Taylor Cognitive approaches to grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Cristiano Broccias Part two: The conceptual leap Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Tim Rohrer Metonymy as a usage event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Klaus-Uwe Panther Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology . . . . . . 187 Seana Coulson Part three: The psychological basis The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Marcus Perlman X ISLIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children’s early speech and gesture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 S¸eyda Özçalıs¸kan and Susan Goldin-Meadow viii Table of contents Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Gary B. Palmer Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination Visual communication: Signed language and cognition . . . . . . . 359 Terry Janzen Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Charles Forceville The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Margaret H. Freeman Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 John A. Barnden Computability as a test on linguistics theories . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Tony Veale Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Subject index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496 ix List of contributors Michel Achard Seana Coulson Department of Linguistics Department of Cognitive Science Rice University University of California Houston, TX San Diego,CA USA USA e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] John A. Barnden René Dirven School of Computer Science Mechelen University of Birmingham Belgium U. K. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: J.A.Barnden@ cs.bham.ac.uk Charles Forceville Department of Media Studies Frank Boers Universiteit van Amsterdam Department of Applied The Netherlands Linguistics e-mail: [email protected] Erasmushogeschool Brussels Margaret H. Freeman Belgium Myrifield Institute for Cognition e-mail: frank.boers@docent. and the Arts ehb.be Heath,MA Institute of Education USA University of Antwerp e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Dirk Geeraerts Cristiano Broccias Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistic University of Leuven and Cultural Communication Belgium Università di Genova e-mail: dirk.geeraerts@arts. Italy kuleuven.be e-mail: Cristiano.Broccias@ unige.it x List of contributors Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. Gary B. Palmer Department of Psychology Department of Anthropology University of California and Ethnic Studies Santa Cruz,CA University of Nevada USA Las Vegas,NV e-mail: [email protected] USA e-mail: [email protected] Susan Goldin-Meadow Department of Psychology Klaus-Uwe Panther University of Chicago,IL Department of English USA and American Studies e-mail: [email protected] Universität Hamburg Germany Terry Janzen e-mail: [email protected] Department of Linguistics University of Manitoba Marcus Perlman Canada Department of Psychology e-mail: [email protected] University of California Santa Cruz,CA Gitte Kristiansen USA Department of English Language e-mail: [email protected] and Linguistics Universidad Complutense Tim Rohrer de Madrid Colorado Advanced Research Madrid Institute Spain Boulder,CO e-mail: [email protected] USA e-mail: [email protected] Seth Lindstromberg Hilderstone College Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Kent Ibáñez U.K. Department of Modern e-mail: [email protected] Languages Universidad de La Rioja S¸eyda Özçalıs¸kan Logrono, La Rioja Department of Psychology Spain University of Chicago,IL e-mail: ruizdemendoza@ USA reterioja.com e-mail: [email protected]