Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Studies in Linguistic Motivation
Günter Radden · 2004
46/100
👎 Skip It
Thirteen academic papers on cognitive linguistics across eight-plus languages, published in a De Gruyter Mouton scholarly series — this is strictly for linguistics PhD students and researchers. The LSA called it a fundamental contribution, and in its narrow field that probably holds. For anyone outside that field, it is genuinely inaccessible and offers nothing resembling a reading experience.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing68
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy74
Hype vs delivers45
Age-fit25
👁 Human-eye gut-check44
Penny’s verdict46
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