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Language and the cognitive construal of the world / edited by John R. Taylor, Robert E. MacLaury.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 82
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 82
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and culture--Congresses.
- Language and culture.
- Cognitive grammar--Congresses.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Categorization (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Categorization (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (424 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2010
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: On construing the world / Taylor, John R.
- Seeing it in more than one way / Casad, Eugene H.
- Possession and possessive constructions / Langacker, Ronald W.
- What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation / Tsohatzidis, Savas L.
- The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions / Dirven, René
- Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction / Heine, Bernd
- Metaphors of anger in Japanese / Matsuki, Keiko
- Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns / Geeraerts, Dirk / Grondelaers, Stefan
- Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence / Kövecses, Zoltán
- The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation" / Jäkel, Olaf
- Vantage theory / MacLaury, Robert E.
- The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person" / Hill, Jane H. / MacLaury, Robert E.
- Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction / Aoyagi, Munekazu H.
- Genus, species, and vantages / Lansing, Jeff
- On construing the world of language / Love, Nigel
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Contributors
- Notes:
- Chiefly papers presented at a conference entitled Language, thought, and culture which was held in Broederstroom, South Africa in 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110809305
- 3110809303
- OCLC:
- 794664366
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