Language structure and environment : social, cultural, and natural factors / / edited by Rik De Busser, National Chengchi University, Taiwan ; Randy J. LaPolla, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910478855203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-272-6873-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Collana: Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, , 1879-8047 ; ; Volume 6
• Disciplina: 410.1/81
• Soggetti: Structural linguistics - Social aspects; Structural linguistics - Research; Intercultural communication - Social aspects; Sublanguage - Social aspects; Language and culture - Social aspects; Language and culture - Research; Sociolinguistics - Research; 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 at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Language Structure and Environment; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Non-autonomous syntax; 1.2 Linguistic relativity; 2. Related fields; 2.1 Functional grammar; 2.2 Sociolinguistics; 2.3 Ecolinguistics; 2.4 Ethnosyntax; 3. Relevant environmental parameters; 3.1 Cultural factors; 3.2 Social factors; 3.3 Geographical factors; 3.4 Natural factors; 3.5 Human biology; 3.6 Meta-perception of language; Bibliography; Part 1. Grammar and culture; On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure1. Cognition: Inference in understanding our surroundings; 2. The nature of communication: Ostension and inference; 3. The nature of language: Language is culture; 4. How the grammars of languages differ; Do they constrain or not constrain the interpretation of a particular semantic domain?; If they constrain the interpretation of a particular domain, how much do they constrain it?; If they constrain the interpretation of a particular domain, how do they constrain it?; 5. Final remarksReferences; The body, the universe, society and language; 1. Introduction; 2. Modern Germanic in the grip of the unknown; 3. Changes in PG grammar as enactments of the Anabaptist worldview; 3.1 The grammaticalization of zehle: From 'counting' to 'predicting'; 3.2 The degrammaticalization of wotte from subjunctive modal to 'desire'; 3.3 The rise of fer 'for' in purposive complement clauses; 4. The speed of changes in PG grammar; 5. Early Germanic in the grip of the unknown; 6. Experiencing illness; 6.1 The impersonal verb construction and its variants; 6.2 The construction of inalienability and its variants6.3 Other oblique curiosities; 6.4 The accusative subject in Middle Dutch; 7. In sum; 8. The decline of the dative-marked participant; 9. A final note on the expression of sickness and disease in Modern English; 10. In conclusion; Bibliography; Middle Dutch sources; Old and Middle English sources; When culture grammaticalizes; 1. The Onya Darat language and its speakers; 2. Encoding social information in pronouns: A Southeast Asian phenomenon; 3. The pronominal system of Onya Darat; 4. The origins of generational affiliation marking; 5. ConclusionIn Memoriam; Bibliography; The cultural bases of linguistic form; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Culture and linguistic form; 1.2 Linguistic and ethnographic background; 2. Towards a sociocultural theory of linguistic form; 3. Quotatives evidentials and reported speech constructions; 3.1 Lexical quotative construction; 3.2 Quotative evidentials; 4. Reported speech in Nanti communicative practice; 4.1 Talking about others' actions; 4.2 Talking about others' internal states; 4.3 Conflict, intimacy, and the evidential ethic; 5. A practice-based account of the grammaticalization of Nanti quotatives and reportives
• Sommario/riassunto: It is widely understood that the socio-historical contexts of languages have a direct bearing on their structures and on the types of stance that communities take in relation to them. Within the discipline of linguistics these socio-historical contexts and their impacts on communities' use and understanding of language are generally referred to as sociolinguistic factors. Meanwhile within descriptive linguistics ; the structure of language remains core. This is evidenced in the shape of university course design, structures of textbooks, and in how linguistic knowledge is recorded. In this paper