Autore	Günther Franziska
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (494 pages) : illustrations, tables
Disciplina	410.1835
Collana	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Soggetto topico	Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Cognitive grammar Cognition Language and culture Psycholinguistics Speech acts (Linguistics)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-045986-8 3-11-046134-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Constructions in cognitive contexts -- 2. Setting the theoretical scene -- 3. Construing spatial scenes in German and English -- 4. Attention, 'ception' and language: Basic considerations -- 5. Constructions as [form-construal meaning]- associations -- 6. Spatial language, cognition and perception: Methods and hypotheses -- 7. Experiment 1 - linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: Patterns of language- and speaker-specific variation -- 8. Experiment 2 - linguistic and non-linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: The role of cognitive contexts -- 9. Conclusion: Constructions, cognition, cognitive contexts and beyond -- References -- Appendix -- Author index -- Topic index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910155389903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2000
Descrizione fisica	xvi, 369 p. : ill
Disciplina	401
Altri autori (Persone)	PützMartin <1955-> VerspoorMarjolyn
Collana	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory
Soggetto topico	Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Language and culture Thought and thinking
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-17463-4 9786613174635 90-272-8375-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456628303321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2000
Descrizione fisica	xvi, 369 p. : ill
Disciplina	401
Altri autori (Persone)	PützMartin <1955-> VerspoorMarjolyn
Collana	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory
Soggetto topico	Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Language and culture Thought and thinking
ISBN	9786613174635 9781283174633 1283174634 9789027283757 9027283753
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	EXPLORATIONS IN LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- References -- Towards a 'Full Pedigree' of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis': From Locke to Lucy -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. The Humboldtian tradition of linguistic worldview -- 3. Humboldtian ethnolinguistics in North America and SWH -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- How relativistic are Humboldt's "Weltansichten"? -- 1. Language and thought -- 2. Relativity -- 3. Final remark -- Notes -- References -- When is 'Linguistic Relativity' Whorf's Linguistic Relativity? -- 1. Introductory comments -- 2. Whorf s definitions of the linguistic relativity principle -- 3. The role of the construct 'isolate of experience' in Whorf s reasoning -- 4. The place of analogical projection in the linguistic relativity picture -- 5. Isolates of experience conceptualized as occurring in the external field -- 6. Isolates conceptualized as occurring in the egoic or internal field of experience -- 7. Linguistic relativity in the context of relativisms in general -- References -- Linguistic Relativity and Translation -- 1. Historical overview -- 2. Culture, context and translatability -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Humboldt, Whorf and the Roots of Ecolinguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On the intellectual roots of ecolinguistics -- 3. Limits to relativity -- References -- Loci of Diversity and Convergence in Thought and Language -- 1. Constrained diversity in thought and sound -- 2. Components of thought -- 3. Ways of organizing thought -- 4. Repeated verbalizations of the same experience -- 5. Translation -- 6. Categories -- 7. Shadow meanings -- 8. Orientations -- 9. Constructions -- 10. Summary -- Note -- References -- On Linguocentrism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Current speculation on the evolution of language. 3. Semiotics, conceptualization, and culture -- 4. Interactional intelligence and language -- 5. The inescapability of (meta-)language: Wierzbicka's position -- 6. The separation (or not) of the study of "language" and "culture -- 7. Implications for theory of language, culture, and thought, and for research on linguistic relativity -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- From the Jurassic Dark: Linguistic Relativity as Evolutionary Necessity -- 1. Evolutionary biology -- 2. Social reality -- 3. Perception -- 4. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Neuro-Cognitive Structure in the Interplay of Language and Thought -- 1. Five basic properties of mental models -- 2. What are we asking? -- 3. The cortical information system -- 4. Learning looms large -- 5. The proximity principle -- 6. The language cortex -- 7. Top-down effects in perception -- 8. The basic puzzle and a solution -- References -- Language and Thought: Collective Tools for Individual Use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The kinship case -- 3. Whorfian issues in the kinship study -- 4. The general theory of lexical semantics -- 5. The Whorfian connection -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Appendix A: Fanti kinship terminology, adapted from Kronenfeld (1973) -- Appendix B: Behavioral patterns, terminological patterns, and genealogical features, adapted from Kronenfeld (1975) -- Ontological Classifiers as Polycentric Categories, as Seen in Shona Class 3 Nouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Discussion of Shona class 3 -- 4. Categories that satisfy multiple constraints -- 5. Unexplained items -- 6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Linguistic Relativity and the Plasticity of Categorization: Universalism in a New Key -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Color and relativity -- 3. Perceptual universals -- 4. Universal cognitive dynamics -- 5. Variation -- 6. Vantages -- 7. Polysemy. 8. Deactivating morphology -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Linguistic Relativity as a Function of Ideological Deixis -- 1. A story of stories: Susan Smith's wild ride -- 2. The BATTLE OF ICON AND CARICATURE -- 3. Ideological deixis -- 4. Linguistic relativity and the process of making sense -- Note -- References -- Data Sources -- Why We Subject Incorporate (in English): A Post-Whorfian View -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject incorporations in English -- 3. The motivation for and complementarity of SIs and OIs in English -- 4. Ergative patterns as 'covert' categories -- 5. Homage to Whorf and concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Metalinguistic Awareness in Linguistic Relativity: Cultural and Subcultural Practices Across Chinese Dialect Communities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metalinguistic awareness and linguistic relativity -- 3. Metalinguistic awareness and Han Chinese cultural practices -- 4. Metalinguistic awareness and subcultural practices across Chinese dialect communities -- 5. Dialect spread and the spread of dialect-based subcultural practices -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index.
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Autore	Bromhead Helen <1981->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (241 pages)
Disciplina	809/.9336
Collana	Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts (CLSCC)
Soggetto topico	Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Language and culture Geographical perception
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910467030203321

Autore	McWhorter John H.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (203 p.)
Disciplina	306.44
Soggetto topico	Language and culture Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-936160-6 0-19-936159-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION ; The Language Hoax; Chapter 1: Studies Have Shown; Hitting a Wall after a Long Night; Kind of Blue; Tribe without Paper or Pencils Mysteriously Weak at Portraiture; It Depends on Where You Stand; Mommy, the Park Is Covered with Squirrel! Can I Go Feed Some of It?; Language Is about All of Us; Chapter 2: Having It Both Ways?; Words versus Whorfianism; Rules of the Rain Forest?; Evidential Markers; The Irrelevance of Necessity; Not Those Things? "No Word for X": Caveat LectorWho Thinks Otherwise?; Chapter 3: An Interregnum: On Culture; Whorfianism versus Words; There Are Words and There Are Words; What's with Stand-up Comedy?; Culture Shaping Grammar: It Happens; Language and Universals: A Clarification; Moving Along; Chapter 4: Dissing the Chinese; The Normal Language: Beyond English Indeed; A Blooming Mess; Choosing Which Differences Matter; Whorfianism and Thrift; The Dog That Doesn't Bark; When a Study Shows a Negative; Chapter 5: What's the Worldview from English?; As If; Dey In, Dey Out; Try, Try Again; Undercooked? Anglerfish Testicles and the FutureWhat's Significant?; Chapter 6: Respect for Humanity; Advocacy or Reportage?; Problem One-Honesty; Are Worldviews Always Noble?; Problem Two-Respect; Through the Microscope; Problem Three-Accuracy; What Is Enlightenment?; The Wonders of Sameness; Then Isn't Language Boring?; What Is Forward?; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Index
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