Language, Culture, and Mind (Stanfords monographs in linguistics)
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Number of Pages: 622
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 1575864649
ISBN-13: 9781575864648
Language, Culture, and Mind is a stimulating collection exploring the ways that cognitive, social, and cultural categories are revealed through language. Contributors use methods such as psycholinguistic experiments and observations of natural discourse to probe how such categories are organized, with grammatical and semantic analyses—in modern cognitive frameworks—augmenting these approaches. Some of the phenomena studied include the linguistic expression of space and causality; aspect, classifiers, negation, and complement constructions; and metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual ble...