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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790814303321

Titolo

Language and the cognitive construal of the world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John R. Taylor, Robert E. MacLaury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995

ISBN

3-11-080930-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 82

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 82

Classificazione

ER 940

Altri autori (Persone)

TaylorJohn R. <1944->

MacLauryRobert E. <1944->

Disciplina

306.4/4

Soggetti

Language and culture

Cognitive grammar

Categorization (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chiefly papers presented at a conference entitled Language, thought, and culture which was held in Broederstroom, South Africa in 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Introduction: On construing the world / Taylor, John R. -- Seeing it in more than one way / Casad, Eugene H. -- Possession and possessive constructions / Langacker, Ronald W. -- What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation / Tsohatzidis, Savas L. -- The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions / Dirven, René -- Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction / Heine, Bernd -- Metaphors of anger in Japanese / Matsuki, Keiko -- Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns / Geeraerts, Dirk / Grondelaers, Stefan -- Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence / Kövecses, Zoltán -- The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation" / Jäkel, Olaf -- Vantage theory / MacLaury, Robert E. -- The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person" / Hill, Jane H. / MacLaury, Robert E. -- Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction / Aoyagi, Munekazu H. -- Genus, species, and vantages / Lansing, Jeff -- On construing the world of language / Love, Nigel -- Index of names -- Subject index -- Contributors