Harder Peter. Meaning in Mind and Society: A Functional Contribution to the Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics

Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2010. — 529 p. — (Cognitive Linguistics Research). — ISBN10: 3110205106, 13 978-3110205107.Cognitive Linguistics is becoming increasingly oriented towards the social dimension. This book describes this development and discusses some central issues for the emerging socio-cognitive synthesis. Mapping out the territory from individual embodied meaning to discourse struggles, it suggests principles for an analysis of the relation between conceptual and social processes.