Semantics Culture And Cognition

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195073266
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics, Culture, and Cognition written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780197722381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics, Culture, and Cognition written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 3110294656
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition written by Carsten Levisen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110211483
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Society, and Cognition written by David B. Kronenfeld and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : M. Yamaguchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137274824
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition written by M. Yamaguchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110294668
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition written by Carsten Levisen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ray S. Jackendoff
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600132
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics and Cognition written by Ray S. Jackendoff and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985-09-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andreas Blank
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110804190
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Semantics and Cognition written by Andreas Blank and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Norbert Ross
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 076192907X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Cognition written by Norbert Ross and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recommended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and researchers in the fields of Psychology and Anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004357726
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage written by Cliff Goddard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.