An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics (Learning About Language)

By Friedrich Ungerer, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Hans-Jorg Schmid

Book Overview

An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics carefully explains the central concepts of categoriza­tion, of prototype and gestalt perception, of basic level and conceptual hierarchies, of figure and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582239664
• ISBN13: 9780582239661
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

In the field of linguistics...

I'm currently enrolled in a linguistics class at Tulane University, and we had to read this book so as to give us a cognitivist perspective on semantic theory. It is a well-written book with very helpful exercises to illustrate various experiments performed by linguists and psychologists.