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Traveling conceptualizations : a cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican / Andrea Hollington, University of Cologne.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hollington, Andrea, author.
Contributor:
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Series:
Culture and language use ; 1879-5838 v. 14.
Culture and language use, 1879-5838 ; v. 14
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African languages--Jamaica.
African languages.
Languages in contact--Jamaica.
Languages in contact.
Anthropological linguistics--Jamaica.
Anthropological linguistics.
Jamaica.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 242 pages) : 3 maps, 1 illustration.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2015]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
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).
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2015).
Other Format:
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Hollington, Andrea. Traveling conceptualizations.
ISBN:
9789027268402
9027268401
Publisher Number:
99986331900
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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