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UNINA9910781259003321 |
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Autore |
Asare Meshack <1945-> |
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Titolo |
Identity meets nationality : voices from the humanities / / edited by Helen Lauer, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Jemima Asabea Anderson |
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Ghana, : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2011 |
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1-283-11425-9 |
9988-647-79-4 |
9786613114259 |
9988-647-99-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LauerHelen |
AmfoNana Aba Appiah |
AndersonJemima Asabea |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics |
Humanities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Notes on the Contributors; 1. The Humanities and the Ideaof National Identity; Introduction; Religion and identity; Politics and identity; References; 2. Empiricalism: The Empirical Character of an African Philosophy; 1. Akan language and the expression of abstract ideas; 2. The empirical and the metaphysical; 3. Empirical concepts of time and space; 4. Empiricalism; References; 3. Metaphors of Death in Akan; Introduction; 1. The conceptual metaphor theory (CMT); 2. Language, data, and method |
3.1 Analysis and discussion of Akans' view of death; 3.2 Death is departure; 3.3 Death is a loss; 3.4 Death is a person; 3.5 Death is sleep; Summary and conclusion; References; 4. Political Nicknaming in Ghana: Social Representations of Democracy Achieved through Conceptual Blending; Introduction and background; 1. Political discourse and social cognition; 2. Language in meaning construction; 2.1. Meaning creation in cognitive semantics; 2.1.1. Metaphor in meaning construction; 3. Conceptual blending theory-an overview; 3.1. |
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