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UNINA9910786012703321 |
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Levisen Carsten |
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Cultural semantics and social cognition [[electronic resource] ] : a case study on the Danish universe of meaning / / by Carsten Levisen |
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Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012 |
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1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 257 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910823147703321 |
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Autore |
Mizejewski Linda |
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Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics / / by Linda Mizejewski |
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Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Women comedians - United States |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - United States |
Racism - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics: -- Funniness, prettiness, and feminism -- kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list -- Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey -- Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs" -- Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto -- "White people are looking at you!" wanda Sykes's black looks -- Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door. |
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Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer |
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women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars, and, most often, they’ve been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians—no matter what they look like—have ended up on the other side of “pretty,” enabling them to make it the topic and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don’t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women’s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century. |
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