Introduction
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
Jörg Zinken [+ ]
University of Portsmouth
Jörg Zinken is Senior Lecturer of Psychology of Communication and coordinator of the Language, Culture and Mind Research Group at the University of Portsmouth. His research interests cover topics from the interface between anthropological and cognitive linguistics, including universals and variation in multifunctionality patterns, contextual models of metaphor, and the semantics of prosody and syntax.
Description
This chapter provides an overview of the section of the book devoted to language acquisition, diversity and change.