Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Volume 243 — John Benjamins Publishing, 2003. — 403 p. — ISBN 90 272 4755 2.This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) 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.Contents.
Editors’ Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
In Search of Conceptual Structure: Five Milestones in the Work of Günter Radden.
René Dirven.
Motivation in Lexico-Grammar.
Extreme Subjectification: English Tense and Modals.
Ronald W. Langacker.
Meaning and Context.
John R. Taylor.
Lexical Rules vs. Constructions: A False Dichotomy.
William Croft.
Schemas and Lexical Blends.
Suzanne Kemmer.
Valency and Diathesis.
Heinz Vater.
To Get or to Be? Use and Acquisition of Get- versus Re-Passives: Evidence from Children and Adults.
Kerstin Meints.
Motivation in the Lexicon.
Space and Time in Polish: The Preposition za and the verbal Prefix za-.
Elzbieta Tabakowska.
Functions of the Preposition kuom in Dholuo.
Mechthild Reh.
Grammaticalization of Postpositions in German.
Claudio di Meola.
Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: An Analysis and a Few Modest Proposals.
Antonio Barcelona.
Motivation in Socio-Cultural Conceptualizations.
How Language Is Conceptualized and Metaphorized in Japanese: An Essay in Linguistic Ideology.
Yoshihiko Ikegami.
The Ever-Stifling Essentialism: Language and Conflict in Poland (1991-1993).
Karol Janicki.
Motion Metaphorized in the Economic Domain.
Olaf Jäkel.
Motivation in Applied Linguistics.
English in the World and English in the School.
Willis Edmondson & Juliane House.
Attitudes towards Luganda, Kiswahili, English, and Mother Tongue as Media of Instruction in Uganda.
Meike Sprenger-Tasch.
Style Labels in Monolingual English Learner’s Dictionaries.
Wolfgang Hünig.Name Index.
Subject Index.
