{"id":1372,"date":"2011-02-01T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2011-01-24T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:14:31","slug":"annual-review-of-cognitive-linguistics-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Annual review of cognitive linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Annual review of cognitive linguistics<\/strong>: Volume 7. Ed. by <strong>Francisco Jos\u00e9 Ruiz de Mendoza Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. iv, 356. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/annual-review-of-cognitive-linguistics\/oclc\/428032899&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027254870<\/a>. $164.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=104086\"><strong>Engin Arik<\/strong><\/a>, <em>Purdue University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This volume consists of articles, a special section, interviews, and book reviews. The first section, \u2018Articles\u2019, consists of four papers written specifically for this volume. In \u2018Serializing languages as satellite-framed: The case of Fon\u2019 (1\u201329), <strong>Ren\u00e9e Lambert-Br\u00e9ti\u00e8re<\/strong> argues that Fon is a satellite-framed language with respect to Leonard Talmy\u2019s typology. In \u2018English posture verbs: An experientially grounded approach\u2019 (30\u201357), <strong>John Newman<\/strong> examines frequently found posture verbs in English, such as <em>sit<\/em>, <em>stand<\/em>, and <em>lie<\/em>. <strong>Mario Brdar<\/strong> focuses on linguistic forms for animals, trees, and wood(s) in Slavic languages to investigate metonymy avoidance strategies in \u2018Metonymy-induced polysemy and the role of suffixation in its resolution in some Slavic languages\u2019 (58\u201388). \u2018Symbol and symptom: Routes from gesture to sign language\u2019 (89\u2013110) by <strong>Sherman Wilcox<\/strong> shows how the Italian gesture meaning \u2018impossible\u2019 is grammaticalized in Italian Sign Language.<\/p>\n<p>The volume also has a \u2018Special section: Constructing a second language\u2019. There are seven articles in this section, starting with \u2018Constructing a second language: Introduction to the special section\u2019 (111\u201339) by <strong>Nick C. Ellis<\/strong> and <strong>Teresa Cadierno<\/strong>, which summarizes the articles in this section. In \u2018The inseparability of lexis and grammar: Corpus linguistic perspectives\u2019 (140\u201362), <strong>Ute R\u00f6mer<\/strong> provides an overview of corpus linguistic research on the lexis-grammar interface. <strong>Stefan Th. Gries<\/strong> and <strong>Stefanie Wulff<\/strong> examine whether German speakers of English as a second language (L2) store gerund and infinitival complement constructions separately in \u2018Psycholinguistic and corpus-linguistic evidence for L2 constructions\u2019 (163\u201386). \u2018Constructions and their acquisition: Islands and the distinctiveness of their occupancy\u2019 (188\u2013221), written by Nick C. Ellis and <strong>Fernando Ferreira-Junior<\/strong>, investigates the effects of naturalistic L2 acquisition of type\/token distributions in verb-argument constructions.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2018Reconstructing verb meaning in a second language: How English speakers of L2 Dutch talk and gesture about placement\u2019 (221\u201344), <strong>Marianne Gullberg<\/strong> explores how English speakers of Dutch as a second language express placement events (e.g. English <em>put<\/em> versus Dutch <em>leggen<\/em> \u2018lay\u2019 and <em>zetten<\/em> \u2018set\u2019). Teresa Cadierno and <strong>Peter Robinson<\/strong> investigate the acquisition of L2 constructions in \u2018Language typology, task complexity and the development of L2 lexicalization patterns for describing motion events\u2019 (245\u201376), with a particular focus on Danish and Japanese speakers learning English. This section concludes with the article, \u2018Constructing a second language: Some final thoughts\u2019 (277\u201390), by <strong>Ewa D\u0105browska<\/strong>. She investigates how cognitive linguistics can provide an appropriate model for second language research and can make larger contributions to both first language acquisition\/learning and theoretical linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>The volume includes two interviews. In \u2018Meaning making: The bigger picture: An interview with Zolt\u00e1n K\u00f6vecses\u2019 (291\u2013300), <strong> R\u00e9ka Benczes<\/strong> interviews with Zolt\u00e1n K\u00f6vecses to get his thoughts on the main topics of cognitive linguistics and personal story to become a cognitive linguist. In \u2018A psycholinguist\u2019s view on cognitive linguistics: An interview with Ray W. Gibbs\u2019 (302\u201318), \u00a0<strong>Javier Valenzuela<\/strong> discusses Gibbs\u2019 own thoughts about cognitive linguistics, advocating for empirical research to further explore the main topics. The volume also presents four book reviews.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, this volume presents highly authentic overview articles and research papers as well as a wonderful special section on L2 and cognitive linguistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual review of cognitive linguistics: Volume 7. Ed. by Francisco Jos\u00e9 Ruiz de Mendoza Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. iv, 356. ISBN 9789027254870. $164. Reviewed by Engin Arik, Purdue University This volume consists of articles, a special section, interviews, and book reviews. 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