Analogy and Contrast in Language

Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately. This volume seeks to bridge that gap and in doing so it brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research in the field. The chapters in this book examine analogy and contrast across a variety of languages (English, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Russian), for different language phenomena (constructions, lexical semantics, morphology, sentence structure, text organization), and with the use of various methods (corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, experimental methods, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis). This state-of-the-art research presented in the book should be of interest to specialists within Cognitive Linguistics, corpus linguistics, construction grammar, discourse analysis, translation studies, metaphor research, and cross-cultural research.

Zhou Geng & Shuqiong Wu, Sichuan International Studies University, in Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024).:
It is indeed a seminal contribution to Cognitive Linguistics since the diversity of theories and research methods is precisely the vitality of Cognitive Linguistics and at the same time, it is cognitive capacity that makes cognitive linguistics cognitive. With its cutting-edge ideas and insightful guidance, this volume will no doubt exert a far-reaching influence on the development of cognitive linguistics.