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Traveling conceptualizations : a cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican / Andrea Hollington, University of Cologne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollington, Andrea, author.
- 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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