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Language structure and environment : social, cultural, and natural factors /

It is widely understood that the socio-historical contexts of languages have a direct bearing on their structures and on the types of stance that communities take in relation to them. Within the discipline of linguistics these socio-historical contexts and their impacts on communities' use and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: De Busser, Rik (Editor ), LaPolla, Randy J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ; Volume 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure: an overview / Rik De Busser
  • On the logical necessity of cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all the aspects of linguistic structure / Randy J. LaPolla
  • The body, the universe, society and language: Germanic in the grip of the unknown / Kate Burridge
  • When culture grammaticalizes: the pronomial system of Onya Darat / Uri Tadmor
  • The cultural bases of linguistic form: the development of Nanti quotative evidentials / Lev Michael
  • Societies of intimates and linguistic complexity / Peter Trudgill
  • On the relation between linguistic and social factors in migrant language contact / Michael Clyne, Yvette Slaughter, John Hajek & Doris Schüpbach
  • Topography in the language: absolute frame of reference and the topographic correspondence hypothesis / Bill Palmer
  • Walk around the clock: the shaping of a (counter- )clockwise distinction in Siar directionals / Friedel Martin Frowein
  • Types of spread zones: open and closed, horizontal and vertical / Johanna Nichols
  • The role of adaptation in understanding linguistic diversity / Gary Lupyan & Rick Dale
  • On becoming an object of study: legitimization in the discipline of linguistics / Cathering L. Easton & Tonya N. Stebbins.