Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds

Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2003

Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds

A Cognitive Approach

Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

In the series Planet Communication

In the series Mouton Textbook

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197235

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About this book

Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds is a textbook for guided self-learning intended for post-intermediate and advanced learners of English. It contains some 1,100 phrasal compounds used with 17 particles/prepositions which combine with some 500 different verbs, nouns and adjectives. Numerous glosses allow the teacher to use it in very heterogeneous classes.

Thanks to cognitive linguistics the material is organized around each particle giving the students an astonishing insight into the networks of metaphorical meanings of each particle. Furthermore, the book implements the most important findings and techniques in the field of learning a foreign language. This textbook will be a valuable companion for teachers and students.

Author information

Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn was Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Paul Ostyn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Namur, Belgium.

Reviews

"Word Power should be admired for taking on the "plateau effect" (e.g. Harmer 2001:44), that is for trying to defy the law of diminishing returns that so often hampers the progress of post-intermediate and advanced learners of English. It is also obvious that a lot of thought and careful research has gone into the selection of phrasal verbs, their semantic analyses, the conceptual diagrams, the self-test exercises, the consolidation and revision sections, and so on."
Teun De Rycker in: ITL, 3/ 2006

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	I
Table of contents Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	XI
Introduction: Words and the World Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	1
1. OUT is leaving a container Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	14
2. INis entering or being inside a container Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	48
3. INTO is entering a container Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	69
4. UPis positive verticality Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	75
5. DOWN is negative verticality Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	104
6. OFF is breaking contact Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	121
7. AWAY is disappearing Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	139
8. ON is contact Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	149
9. OVER is higher than and close to Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	160
10. BACK is returning Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	173
11. ABOUT is dispersion Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	180
12. (A)ROUND is vicinity or circular motion Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	184
13. ABOUT/(A)ROUND is dispersion vs. circular motion Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	187
14. ACROSS is motion to opposite side Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	193
15. THROUGH is crossing a container Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	195
16. BY is vicinity or path Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	200
17. ALONG is parallel path or entity Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	204

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 206
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Englisch/Sprache; Englisch/ Sprachlehrbücher; Wissenschaftliches Lehrbuch; Kognitive Linguistik; Präpositionalkonstruktion

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197235

Hardcover

Published: June 19, 2003
ISBN: 9783110177039