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Embodiment in Latin semantics /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Short, William Michael, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Colección:Studies in Language Companion series, 174
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Embodiment in Latin Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; A matter of perspective; 1. Motion verbs; 2. An overview of relevant facts in Latin; 3. A survey of eo and venio in pre-classical texts; 4. A survey of eo and venio in classical Latin; 5. Conclusions; References; Vertical scales in temporal sub constructions in Latin; 1. Introduction; 2. Sub's spatial characteristics; 3. The construction in context; 4. The unassisted temporal construction; 5. Conclusions; References; The embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin.
  • 1. Introduction2. Semantic roles: A cognitive linguistic view; 3. Purpose expressions based on direction; 4. Purpose expressions based on location; 5. Purpose expressions based on cause; References; Ontological and orientational metaphors in Latin; 1. Introduction; 2. Ontological metaphors: The containment schema; 3. Orientational experiential metaphors; 4. Conclusions; References; The metaphorical structuring of kinship in Latin; 1. Introduction; 2. Space and kinship; 3. The Roman gradus cognationum; 4. Grandfathers "far away": The spatial nature of Latin's lexicon of kinship.
  • 5. Vegetal images of lineage and filiation6. Space and plants; 7. Time as an organizing image; 8. Conclusions; References; Abstract and embodied colors in Pliny the Elder's Natural History; 1. Introduction; 2. Pliny's colors; 3. Metaphors of color space; 4. Conclusions; References; Embodiment in Latin technical texts; 1. Manual work and embodiment in Roman literature; 2. All roads lead to Rome? Orientation in space; 3. Speech acts and the speaking landscape; 4. Hands on: Directives and embodiment; 5. Directives and embodiment: Personnel; 6. Conclusion; References; Embodied historiography.
  • 1. Embodied historiography2. Philosophy, rhetoric, and cognitive approaches to narrative discourse; 3. Embodied cognition and culture; 4. A cognitive approach to Tacitus; 5. Tacitean embodiment and sympathetic rhetoric; 6. Conclusion; References; Index.