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Traveling conceptualizations : a cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Culture and language use ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Methods and data: A note on spelling and the language examples
- Critical reflections and positioning.
- Cultural conceptualizations and cognitive linguistics: Metaphor and metonymy
- Other conceptualizations: (Categories
- Cultural model
- Blending and mental spaces
- Event conceptualization)
- Language, culture and cognition in a nutshell
- The role of consciousness
- Linguistic processes.
- The Jamaican setting: The sociohistoric background of Jamaica
- Approaches to Jamaican and African influences in Jamaican
- previous studies: (Previous studies on African influences in Jamaica: (Jamaican: (Lexicon
- Phonology, phonotactics and suprasegmentals
- Morphosyntax/grammar
- Semantic structures
- Linguistic practices and African influences in specific communities of practice
- Maroons
- Kumina
- Nago
- Rasta Talk)))
- A new perspective: (Language attitudes
- Language ideologies and awareness).
- Body parts and conceptualizations: The role of body parts in African conceptualizations and languages
- Some aspects of the Jamaican body
- Body parts in Jamaican and African conceptualizations and their linguistic encodings
- Conclusion to the chapter.
- Serial verb constructions and conceptualizations: The notion of serial verb constructions
- Serial verb constructions from a cognitive perspective
- Serial verb constructions in West Africa: An areal phenomenon
- Serial verb constructions in Jamaican: (Asymmetrical SVCs: (Instrumental SVCs
- Motion SVCs: (Purposive SVCs)
- Benefactive SVCs
- Comparative SVCs
- Completive aspect
- Complementizer)
- Symmetrical SVCs
- Argument-sharing and switch-subject SVCs
- Focus in SVCs)
- Conclusion and outlook: Idiomaticity and emblematicity.
- Kinship, names and conceptualizations of identity: Kinship and the African community model
- Jamaican kinship terms and conceptualizations: (Kinship and the domains of healing, the spiritual world and leadership)
- Concluding remarks on kinship
- Names and naming practices in Jamaica: (Personal names: (Day Names
- Reconnecting to Africa: Rastafari names)
- Kromanti
- Nyabingi).