Vyvyan Evans ist ein führender Linguist, dessen Arbeit sich mit kognitiver Linguistik und deren Auswirkungen auf unser Sprachverständnis beschäftigt. Er untersucht, wie unsere Wahrnehmung von Raum und Zeit unsere Gedanken und Ausdrücke prägt. Evans erforscht lexikalische und kompositionelle Semantik sowie bildhafte Sprache und abstraktes Denken. Er ist zudem der Architekt der einflussreichen Theorie der lexikalischen Konzepte und kognitiven Modelle.
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Vyvyan Evans covers all aspects of the relationship between language and mind, as well as applications and extensions of cognitive linguistics to the study of text, literature, discourse, and society. Bursting with new content and presented in a new 5-part structure, the book has been fully revised and extensively updated throughout to deliver the complete guide to the cognitive linguistic enterprise. Brand new additions include: an innovative new chapter exploring key topics in language science, a new chapter introducing the range of research methods and approaches for studying human language, mind and behaviour and new chapters exploring areas such as access semantics and meaning construction, conceptual structure, the nature of space, time, gesture and sign language.