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Perception and cognition in language and culture /
Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. This can be done through lexical means, and through grammatical evidentials. The studies presented here focus on the experssions of perception and cognition in languages of Africa, Oceania, and South America.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Tables, Maps and Figures; Chapter One Linguistic Expression of Perception and Cognition: A Typological Glimpse; Chapter Two Knowing, Smelling and Telling Tales in Luwo; Chapter Three Source of Information and Unexpected Information in!Xun-Evidential, Mirative and Counterexpectation Markers; Chapter Four A Quechuan Mirative?; Chapter Five Seeing, Hearing and Thinking in Korowai, a Language of West Papua; Chapter Six Perception and Cognition in Manambu, a Papuan Language from New Guinea.