The body in language : comparative studies of linguistic embodiment / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Collana | Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Semantics - Psychological aspects Gesture Cognitive grammar Metaphor Metonyms Anthropological linguistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-04-27429-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- The Body in Language: An Introduction / Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization / Bernd Heine -- Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic / Abinet Sime Gebreyes -- Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization / Sally Rice -- The Cow’s Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Ṛgveda: The Case of ‘Udder’ (ūdhar) / Joanna Jurewicz -- Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part Terms / John Newman -- Notions of self in Hausa / Nina Pawlak -- Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms / Izabela Will -- The up/down Orientation in Language and Music / Elżbieta Górska -- Embodiment in Zande / Helma Pasch -- Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS ‘Head’ and yidd ‘Hand’ in Tunisian Arabic / Zouheir Maalej -- What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono / Serena Talento -- Grammaticalization of Body Part Terms in Mundabli / Rebecca Voll -- Whomever It Concerns—Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in Mbembe / Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann -- Sexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic / Magdalena Zawrotna -- Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose / Tatiana Szczygłowska -- Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian ‘Navel’ / Grigory Kreydlin , Svetlana Pereverzeva and Lidia Khesed -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index. |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The body in language : comparative studies of linguistic embodiment / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Collana | Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Semantics - Psychological aspects Gesture Cognitive grammar Metaphor Metonyms Anthropological linguistics |
ISBN | 90-04-27429-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- The Body in Language: An Introduction / Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization / Bernd Heine -- Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic / Abinet Sime Gebreyes -- Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization / Sally Rice -- The Cow’s Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Ṛgveda: The Case of ‘Udder’ (ūdhar) / Joanna Jurewicz -- Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part Terms / John Newman -- Notions of self in Hausa / Nina Pawlak -- Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms / Izabela Will -- The up/down Orientation in Language and Music / Elżbieta Górska -- Embodiment in Zande / Helma Pasch -- Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS ‘Head’ and yidd ‘Hand’ in Tunisian Arabic / Zouheir Maalej -- What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono / Serena Talento -- Grammaticalization of Body Part Terms in Mundabli / Rebecca Voll -- Whomever It Concerns—Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in Mbembe / Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann -- Sexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic / Magdalena Zawrotna -- Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose / Tatiana Szczygłowska -- Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian ‘Navel’ / Grigory Kreydlin , Svetlana Pereverzeva and Lidia Khesed -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787971803321 |
Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The body in language : comparative studies of linguistic embodiment / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Collana | Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Semantics - Psychological aspects Gesture Cognitive grammar Metaphor Metonyms Anthropological linguistics |
ISBN | 90-04-27429-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- The Body in Language: An Introduction / Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization / Bernd Heine -- Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic / Abinet Sime Gebreyes -- Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization / Sally Rice -- The Cow’s Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Ṛgveda: The Case of ‘Udder’ (ūdhar) / Joanna Jurewicz -- Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part Terms / John Newman -- Notions of self in Hausa / Nina Pawlak -- Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms / Izabela Will -- The up/down Orientation in Language and Music / Elżbieta Górska -- Embodiment in Zande / Helma Pasch -- Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS ‘Head’ and yidd ‘Hand’ in Tunisian Arabic / Zouheir Maalej -- What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono / Serena Talento -- Grammaticalization of Body Part Terms in Mundabli / Rebecca Voll -- Whomever It Concerns—Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in Mbembe / Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann -- Sexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic / Magdalena Zawrotna -- Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose / Tatiana Szczygłowska -- Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian ‘Navel’ / Grigory Kreydlin , Svetlana Pereverzeva and Lidia Khesed -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816831503321 |
Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 pages) : maps |
Disciplina | 306.4/4/09676 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BrenzingerMatthias <1957-> |
Collana |
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Contributions to the sociology of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language obsolescence - Africa, East
Code switching (Linguistics) - Africa, East Sociolinguistics - Africa, East |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-11-087060-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I -- Social contexts of language death / Brenzinger, Matthias / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Theory of language death / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death / Myers-Scotton, Carol -- Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Part II -- East African case studies / Brenzinger, Matthias -- The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania / Batibo, Herman -- Language shift in Tanzania / Legère, Karsten -- Reduction in Kore reconsidered / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Dahalo: An endangered language / Tosco, Mauro -- Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects / Möhlig, Wilhelm J. G. -- Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death / Nurse, Derek / Walsh, Martin -- Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu / Brenzinger, Matthias -- Dialect death: The case of Terik / Heine, Bernd -- Language shift among the Suba of Kenya / Rottland, Franz / Okombo, Duncan Okoth -- 175 years of language shift in Gweno / Winter, Christoph -- Part III -- A survey on language death in Africa / Sommer, Gabriele -- Names of scholars -- Subject index -- Index of languages (and variants) -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464773603321 |
Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 pages) : maps |
Disciplina | 306.4/4/09676 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BrenzingerMatthias <1957-> |
Collana |
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Contributions to the sociology of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language obsolescence - Africa, East
Code switching (Linguistics) - Africa, East Sociolinguistics - Africa, East |
ISBN | 3-11-087060-6 |
Classificazione | ES 425 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I -- Social contexts of language death / Brenzinger, Matthias / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Theory of language death / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death / Myers-Scotton, Carol -- Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Part II -- East African case studies / Brenzinger, Matthias -- The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania / Batibo, Herman -- Language shift in Tanzania / Legère, Karsten -- Reduction in Kore reconsidered / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Dahalo: An endangered language / Tosco, Mauro -- Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects / Möhlig, Wilhelm J. G. -- Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death / Nurse, Derek / Walsh, Martin -- Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu / Brenzinger, Matthias -- Dialect death: The case of Terik / Heine, Bernd -- Language shift among the Suba of Kenya / Rottland, Franz / Okombo, Duncan Okoth -- 175 years of language shift in Gweno / Winter, Christoph -- Part III -- A survey on language death in Africa / Sommer, Gabriele -- Names of scholars -- Subject index -- Index of languages (and variants) -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788713703321 |
Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 pages) : maps |
Disciplina | 306.4/4/09676 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BrenzingerMatthias <1957-> |
Collana |
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Contributions to the sociology of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language obsolescence - Africa, East
Code switching (Linguistics) - Africa, East Sociolinguistics - Africa, East |
ISBN | 3-11-087060-6 |
Classificazione | ES 425 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I -- Social contexts of language death / Brenzinger, Matthias / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Theory of language death / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death / Myers-Scotton, Carol -- Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Part II -- East African case studies / Brenzinger, Matthias -- The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania / Batibo, Herman -- Language shift in Tanzania / Legère, Karsten -- Reduction in Kore reconsidered / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Dahalo: An endangered language / Tosco, Mauro -- Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects / Möhlig, Wilhelm J. G. -- Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death / Nurse, Derek / Walsh, Martin -- Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu / Brenzinger, Matthias -- Dialect death: The case of Terik / Heine, Bernd -- Language shift among the Suba of Kenya / Rottland, Franz / Okombo, Duncan Okoth -- 175 years of language shift in Gweno / Winter, Christoph -- Part III -- A survey on language death in Africa / Sommer, Gabriele -- Names of scholars -- Subject index -- Index of languages (and variants) -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809805403321 |
Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language diversity endangered / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BrenzingerMatthias <1957-> |
Collana | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Language attrition
Sociolinguistics |
ISBN |
1-282-19370-8
9786612193705 3-11-019712-X |
Classificazione | ES 550 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Classification and Terminology for Degrees of Language Endangerment -- Chapter 2. Threatened Languages in Hispanic South America -- Chapter 3. Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America -- Chapter 4. Endangered Languages of Mexico and Central America -- Chapter 5. Endangered Languages in USA and Canada -- Chapter 6. Language Endangerment in Northern Africa -- Chapter 7. Endangered Languages in West Africa -- Chapter 8. Endangered Languages in Central Africa -- Chapter 9. Language Endangerment in Southern and Eastern Africa -- Chapter 10. Endangered Languages in Europe -- Chapter 11. Language Endangerment in the CIS -- Chapter 12. Endangered Languages of the Middle East -- Chapter 13. Language Endangerment in China and Mainland Southeast Asia -- Chapter 14. Endangered Languages of South Asia -- Chapter 15. Warramurrungunji Undone: Australian Languages in the 51st Millennium -- Chapter 16. Threatened Languages in the Western Pacific Area from Taiwan to, and Including, Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 17. The Languages of the Pacific Region: the Austronesian Languages of Oceania -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828360503321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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