ICLA book reviews

Online reviews of cognitive linguistics and related titles

On this site, the ICLA presents original reviews of recent books on or relevant to Cognitive Linguistics. These reviews are written by practitioners of Cognitive Linguistics broadly construed.

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Books are posted in the order reviewed. The latest reviews posted are at the top.

• Eemeren, Frans H. van – Bart Garssen (eds.) 2008. Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory. Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamins.

• Cummings, Louise. 2005. Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

• Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Volume 6/2008. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Tomasello, Michael. 2008. Origins of Human Communication. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• Munat, Judith (ed.) 2007. Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Réka Benczes, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

• Krois, John Michael, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele and Dirk Westerkamp (Eds). 2007. Embodiment in Cognition and Culture. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Christina Behme, Philosophy Department, Dalhousie University.

• Hilpert, Martin. 2008. Germanic future constructions: A usage-based approach to language change. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Constructional Approaches to Language 7.) Reviewed by Wolfgang Schulze, University of Munich. Review editing in process. This issue of the ICLA Book Review Site is edited by Suzanne Kemmer.

• Aranovich, Raúl (ed.) 2006. Split Auxiliary Systems. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Wolfgang Schulze, University of Munich.

• Aurnague, M., Hickmann, M., & Vieu, L. 2007. The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition. Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Tilbe Göksun, Department of Psychology, Temple University.

• Charteris-Black, Jonathan. 2004. Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Reviewed by Maria José Hellin Garcia, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of West Georgia.

• Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund (eds). 2008. Aspects of Meaning Construction. Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Réka Benczes, Eöotvos Loránd University, Budapest.

• Radden, Günter, and René Dirven. 2007. Cognitive English Grammar. Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Patrycja Kamińska, Szczecin University.

• Sekerina, Irina, Eva Fernandez & Harald Clahsen (Eds.) 2008. Developmental Psycholinguistics. Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed by Christina Behme, Dalhousie University.

• Levinson, Stephen C. and David P. Wilkins (eds.) 2006. Grammars of Space. Explorations in Cognitive Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Reviewed by Wolfgang Schulze, Institute for General Linguistics and Language Typology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, March 2008)
• Johansson, Sverker. 2005. Origins of Language, Constraints on Hypotheses. Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamins. (Reviewed by Christina Behme, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, March 2008)

• Kristiansen, Gitte, Michel Achard, René Dirven, and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez (eds.). 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Reviewed by Eloy J.M. Romero-Muñoz, Université Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, December 2007)

• Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica, et al., eds. 2007. Methods in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Reviewed by Martin Hilpert, UC Berkeley, U.S.A., November 2007. Current Affiliation: University of Freiburg.)
• Wanner, Dieter. 2006. The Power of Analogy. An Essay on Historical Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Reviewed by Thomas Verjans, Paris 4-Sorbonne, France, October 2007)

• Langlotz, Andreas. 2006. Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representations and Idiom-Variation in English. Amsterdam and Phildelphia: John Benjamins. (Reviewed by Alicia Thuc Anh Vo, University of Nottingham, U.K., September 2007)
• Evans, Vyvyan. 2004. The Structure of Time. Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Reviewed by Samir Karmakar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, September 2007)
• Travis, Catherine. 2005. Discourse Markers in Colombian Spanish: A Study in Polysemy. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Reviewed by Émilie Devriendt, U.F.R. des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université du Sud Toulon Var, France, August 2007)

• Cattell, Ray. 2006. Mind, Consciousness, and Language. London: Continuum International. (Reviewed by Christina Behme, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, August 2007)

• Gibbs, Ray, Jr. 2006. Embodiment and Cognitive Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Reviewed by Antoine Gautier, Paris-Sorbonne University, France, July 2007)

• Geeraerts, Dirk (ed.), 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: Basic readings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Reviewed by Thomas Verjans, Université Paris 4-Sorbonne, France, July 2007)

• Huang, Yan. 2006. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Reviewed by Chaoqun Xie, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, July 2007))

• Givón, T. 2005. Context as Other Minds. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Reviewed by Antoine Gautier, Paris-Sorbonne University, France, July 2007)

• Haser, Verena. 2005. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Reviewed by Michele Prandi, University of Bologna at Forlí)

• Skousen, Royal, et al. 2002. Analogical modeling. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Reviewed by Remi van Trijp, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris)

• Athanasiadou, Angeliki et al. (eds.) 2006. Subjectification. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Hickmann, Maya, and Stephane Robert, eds. 2006. Space in Languages. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Frawley, William (ed.) 2005. The expression of modality. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Kertész, András. 2004. Cognitive semantics and scientific knowledge. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Watts, Richard, et al., eds. 2005. Politeness in Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Itkonen, Esa, 2005. Analogy as Structure and Process. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Janicki, Karol. 2006. Language Misconceived. Arguing for Applied Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

• Heyvaert, Liesbet. 2003. A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Välimaa-Blum, Riitta. 2005. Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Reviewed by J. R. Taylor, University of Otago)

• Evans, Vyvyan, and Melanie Green. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

• Prandi, Michele. 2004. The Building Blocks of Meaning. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Hampe, Beate (ed.) 2005. From Perception to Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Yuasa, Etsuyo. 2005. Modularity in Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Anderson, Greg. 2006. Auxiliary Verb Constructions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Bartsch, Renate. 2002. Consciousness Emerging. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Marmaridou, Sophia, et al., eds. 2005. Reviewing Linguistic Thought. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Goldberg, Adele E. 2006. Constructions at Work. New York: Oxford University Press. (Reviewed by Martin Hilpert, Department of Linguistics, Rice University, October 2006. Current affiliation: University of Freiburg.)

• Deignan, Alice. 2005. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Reviewed by Enrico Monti, University of Bologna, Italy, October 2006)

• Dabrowska, Ewa. 2004. Language, Mind and Brain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Reviewed by Ren Zhang, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, September 2006)

• Haspelmath, Martin, et al. (eds.) 2005. The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Reviewed by Natalya I. Stolova, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Colgate University, September 2006)

Updated 24 Sep 2009