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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463355103321

Autore

Levisen Carsten

Titolo

Cultural semantics and social cognition [[electronic resource] ] : a case study on the Danish universe of meaning / / by Carsten Levisen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

3-11-029465-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 257

Disciplina

439.810143

Soggetti

Semantics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Conventions and symbols -- Chapter 1. Danish as a universe of meaning -- Chapter 2. The NSM approach to linguistic and cultural analysis: Key issues in contemporary cultural semantics -- Chapter 3. Roots of Danish sociality: Hygge as a cultural keyword and core cultural value -- Chapter 4. "It's all about being tryg": Danish society, socialization and ethnopsychology -- Chapter 5. The dark side of the Danes? A semantic and discursive analysis of janteloven 'the Jante Law' -- Chapter 6. Danish cognitive values in a cross-cultural perspective: Evidence from the cognitive verbs synes and mener -- Chapter 7. Are Danes truly the happiest people on earth? Semantics meets "happiness research" -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Appendix. Explications and Cultural Scripts in Danish NSM -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- General index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784368103321

Autore

Rodríguez Ileana

Titolo

Women, guerrillas, and love [[electronic resource] ] : understanding war in Central America / / Ileana Rodríguez ; translated by Ileana Rodríguez with Robert Carr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-8658-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

863

Soggetti

Central American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Revolutions in literature

Guerrillas in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Women/nation/states -- 2. (New) man -- 3. (Wo)man -- 4. (Subaltern) nation/(subaltern) people -- 5. (Wo)man/motherland.

Sommario/riassunto

"The 14 chapters posit a regendering of revolutionary poetics, which is accomplished by reworking concepts such as '(new)man,' 'woman,' and 'subaltern.' The predictability of Rodríguez's arguments and dated historical referents do not detract from solid analyses, like those in chapter eight regarding Mario Roberto Morales' 'El esplendor de la pirámide' and those in the next chapter on Oreamuno's 'La ruta de su evasión.' The author focuses on her strength - narratives from Cuba



and her native Nicaragua"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.