Semantics, Culture, and Cognition
Title | Semantics, Culture, and Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Wierzbicka |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Intercultural communication |
ISBN | 0195073266 |
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.
Semantics, Culture, and Cognition
Title | Semantics, Culture, and Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Wierzbicka |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Intercultural communication |
ISBN | 9780197722381 |
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.
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
Title | Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | Carsten Levisen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110294656 |
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.
Culture, Society, and Cognition
Title | Culture, Society, and Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Kronenfeld |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 2008-12-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110211483 |
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.
Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
Title | Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | M. Yamaguchi |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2014-08-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137274824 |
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.
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
Title | Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | Carsten Levisen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2013-03-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783110294668 |
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.
Historical Semantics and Cognition
Title | Historical Semantics and Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Blank |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-03-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110804190 |
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.