Traveling conceptualizations : a cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican /

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Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hollington, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Culture and language use ; v. 14.
Temas:
African languages > Jamaica.
Languages in contact > Jamaica.
Anthropological linguistics > Jamaica.
Langues africaines > Jamaïque.
Langues en contact > Jamaïque.
Ethnolinguistique > Jamaïque.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
African languages.
Anthropological linguistics.
Languages in contact.
Jamaica.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The book constitutes a first study of these phenomena from a cognitive-linguistic perspective and investigates traveling conceptualizations at the intersection of language, culture and cognition. The author explores Jamaican linguistic practices in different domains namely conceptualizations involving parts of the (human) body, conceptualizations of events, roles and relations underlying serial verb constructions, and conceptualizations of kinship and names. The study can be regarded as an innovative contribution as it looks not only at linguistic expressions on the surface but discusses the underlying cultural and cognitive basis of semantic structures. The study thus aims at making African-Jamaican connections on the conceptual level visible and also discusses notions of consciousness, agency and emblematicity.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027268402
9027268401
9027202974
9789027202970
ISSN:1879-5838 ;

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