Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World / ed. by John R. Taylor, Robert E. MacLaury. - Reprint 2010 - 1 online resource (406 p.) : Num. figs. - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 82 1861-4302 ; .

I-XIV -- Introduction: On construing the world -- Seeing it in more than one way -- Possession and possessive constructions -- What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation -- The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions -- Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction -- Metaphors of anger in Japanese -- Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns -- Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence -- The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation" -- Vantage theory -- The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person" -- Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction -- Genus, species, and vantages -- On construing the world of language -- Index of names -- Subject index -- Contributors

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9783110143010 9783110809305

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110809305 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Categorization (Linguistics)--Congresses.
Categorization (Linguistics).
Cognitive grammar--Congresses.
Cognitive grammar.
Language and culture--Congresses.
Language and culture.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Kognitive Linguistik.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

LC Class. No.: P35 .L29 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4 306.44