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The Leopard's spots : essays on language, cognition, and culture /
In this volume, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Abbreviations; List of Tables, Maps and Figures; Chapter 1 By Way of Introduction ; Part 1 Language Ecology ; Chapter 2 Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent ; 2.1 The Genetic Classification of African Languages: A Brief State of the Art ; 2.2 Accretion Zones, Spread Zones, and Their Ecological Bases ; 2.3 Esoterogeny, Metatypy and Other Miracles of Language Contact; Chapter 3 Accretion Zones and the Absence of Language Union in the Nuba Mountains ; 3.1 Genetic Diversity ; 3.2 Typological Diversity ; 3.2.1 Phonology ; 3.2.2 Lexical Diffusion.
- 3.2.3 Morphological Diversity3.2.4 Clause Structure; 3.3 A Natural Refugium Zone; Chapter 4 Esoterogeny and Localist Strategies in a Nuba Mountain Community ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Internal Variation in Tima and the "Apparent-time" Approach ; 4.3 An Initial Comparison with Katla; 4.4 Metatypy, Esoterogeny, or Neither?; 4.5 Localist Strategies; Part 2 Language and Co-Evolution ; Chapter 5 Some Observations on Evolutionary Concepts in Current Linguistics ; 5.1 Evolutionary Concepts and the Study of Language: Some Earlier Attempts ; 5.2 A Closer Look at the Brown and Witkowski Hypothesis.
- 5.2.1 The Historical-Comparative Evidence and Counter-Evidence5.2.2 The Empirical Basis: Synchronic Evidence and Counterevidence; 5.3 An Alternative Account: Language and Cognition; 5.4 Conclusions and Prospects; Chapter 6 Studying Lexical-Semantic Fields in Languages: Nature Versus Nurture, or Where Does Culture Come into It These Days? ; 6.1 Investigating the Interaction between Language and Cognition: Research on Colour Terminology ; 6.2 Language Typology and the Study of Language Universals; 6.3 The Berlin and Kay Framework; 6.4 Some Problems with the Berlin and Kay Model.
- 6.5 Extending the Greenbergian Framework to Other Lexical Domains6.6 The Expression of Space and Direction in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective ; 6.7 The Problem of the "Radical Translator"; 6.8 Implicational Scales and Historical Reconstruction; 6.9 Some New Evidence for Linguistic Relativity?; 6.10 Some Final Observations; Chapter 7 Lexical-Semantic Fields in Tima ; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Bio-nomenclature; 7.3 Colour; 7.4 Shape and Texture; 7.5 Taste; 7.6 Body Parts; Part 3 Conversational Styles ; Chapter 8 Colourful PSI's Sleep Furiously: Depicting Emotional States in Some African Languages.
- 8.1 Introduction8.2 Categories and Event Structures; 8.3 A Closer Look at Two African Language Families: Nilotic and Bantu; 8.4 Interpreting Colourful PSI's; 8.5 On PSI's and FTA's; Chapter 9 Perception of the Living Dead and the Invisible Hand in Teso-Turkana ; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Invisible Forces in Teso-Turkana; 9.3 Perception of the Invisible Hand; 9.4 A Note on Perception Verbs in a Nilotic Context; Chapter 10 Conversational Styles in Tima ; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Ideophones; 10.3 Emotional States; 10.4 Exoteric and Esoteric Languages; References; Language Index; Subject Index.