Description: "Thoroughly updated throughout to encompass emerging trends in the field, this second edition provides an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, demonstrating how central cognitive grammar principles can be used in stylistic analyses. Assuming no prior knowledge, it leads students through the basics of cognitive grammar, outlining its place within the field of cognitive linguistics as a whole, providing clear explanations of key principles and concepts, and explaining how these can be used to support the study of a range of literary and non-literary texts"--
Brief description: Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Aston University, UK.
Review Quotes: "Providing just the right amount of prose, coupled with figures and diagrams strategically placed throughout the textbook, the authors enlighten readers in a non-intimidating and inviting way with the many connecting facets in the study of cognitive grammar. An out-of-the-box approach to this interesting discipline. Ideal and level-appropriate for an introductory undergraduate semantics course." --Josef Fioretta, Hofstra University, USA