Motivation in Language
This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, aIs the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?a The greater part of the papers (Sections 1a3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between form and meaning play a role. As such, the contributions in Section 1 examine selected aspects of motivation in the continuum between lexicon and grammar; the contributions in Section 2 study the factors underlying the range of (semantic) variants that attach to a particular lexical item; and papers in Section 3 look at motivating factors in linguistic items situated in and conceptualizing the socio-cultural domain. A smaller set of papers in Section 4 point to the role which learner motivation and attitudinal motivation may play in applied linguistics domains.(22) a. za-mieszkaca#39; w tym domu za-live in this housezLOC ato begin living in this housea b. za-mieszkaAc ten dam ... zajqca#39; aquot;za-begin-to-do-something, to conquera, where the stem is the perfective form of the old reflexive verb imaca#39; sie ato beginanbsp;...
| Title | : | Motivation in Language |
| Author | : | Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven, Klaus-Uwe Panther |
| Publisher | : | John Benjamins Publishing - 2003-07-17 |
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