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Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 9780195073263
This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific.
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 0197722385
This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific.
Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110294651
Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, ‘pleasant togetherness’), the book provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in ways suggested by central Danish keywords and lexical grids. By means of a sophisticated semantic methodology, the author accounts for the meanings of even highly culture-specific and untranslatable linguistic concepts. The book offers new tools for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. Additionally, it contributes to the emerging discipline of cultural semantics, and to the ongoing debates of linguistic diversity, metalanguage, and the use of linguistic evidence in studies of culture and social cognition.
Author : M. Yamaguchi,D. Tay,B. Blount
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137274823
Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.
Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273604
This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.
Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110294664
Words do not emerge in a cultural vacuum. They are revealing of speakers' values, cognitive preferences and social practices. With an engaging study of Danish cultural keywords, this book offers a new framework for understanding language-particular universes of meaning and lays the ground for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. The book is of compelling interest to anyone interested in language and cultural values, as well as for students and scholars in Scandinavian and European studies.
Author : David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110211481
This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual system. Members of a cultural community share the system but not all of the system's content, making culture a system of parallel distributed cognition. This book presents such a system, and then elaborates a version of "cultural models" that relates actions to goals, values, emotional content, and context, and that allows both systematic generative capacity and systematic variation across cultural and subcultural groups. Such models are offered as the basic units of cultural action. Culture thus conceived is shown as a tool that people use rather than as something deeply internalized in their psyches.
Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004357723
These lively lectures introduce the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and non Anglocentic approach to cross-linguistic semantics. Topics include semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts, language teaching.
Author : Norbert Ross
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761929079
"Recommended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and researchers in the fields of Psychology and Anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ray S. Jackendoff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262600137
This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception and motor control.
Author : Vladimir Glebkin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247278
The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material. In particular, the book analyzes the sociocultural history of the MACHINE metaphor, specifically its use in the texts of René Descartes and Francis Bacon. The practical embodiment of STLC is demonstrated through the analysis of lexical complexes such as otkryvat' ‘to open,’ kamen' ‘stone,’ and intelligencija ‘intelligentsia.’ In the final chapter of the monograph, FLTCD and STLC are used for the diachronic analysis of semantic change. The monograph will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and philosophers who consider language as a sociocultural phenomenon.
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195174755
This book argues that rather than denying the existence and continued relevance of the cultural 'baggage' embedded in English ('Anglo' English), it is important to explore the contents of that baggage - important for practical, as well as intellectual, reasons.
Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110911114
The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.
Author : Andreas Blank,Peter Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804195
Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for American and European cognitive linguists to confront representatives of different directions in European structural semantics. Papers are in sections on theories and models, descriptive categories, and case studies, and examine areas such as cognitive and structural semantics, diachronic prototype semantics, synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, and intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change.
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195358490
This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key words," which reflect the core values of a given culture. She shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts, and that the analytical framework necessary for this purpose is provided by the "natural semantic metalanguage," based on lexical universals, that the author and colleagues have developed on the basis of wide-ranging cross-linguistic investigations. Appealing to anthropologists, psychologists, and philosophers as well as linguists, this book demonstrates that cultural patterns can be studied in a verifiable, rigorous, and non-speculative way, on the basis of empirical evidence and in a coherent theoretical framework.
