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Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World / ed. by John R. Taylor, Robert E. MacLaury.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 82Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2010]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (406 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110143010
  • 9783110809305
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4 306.44
LOC classification:
  • P35 .L29 1995
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110809305

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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Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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