Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2010
XIII, 406 pages
978-3-11-080930-5 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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122,23 MB
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978-3-11-080930-5 (9783110809305)
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John R. Taylor | Robert E. MacLaury
Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World
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07/1995
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Content
- Intro
- Preface: Linguistic and anthropological approaches to cognition Robert
- Introduction: On construing the world
- Seeing it in more than one way
- Possession and possessive constructions
- What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation
- The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions
- Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction
- Metaphors of anger in Japanese
- Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns
- Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence
- The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation
- Vantage theory
- The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person
- Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction
- Genus, species, and vantages
- On construing the world of language
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Contributors
