Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition: The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

by M. Yamaguchi (Editor), D. Tay (Editor), B. Blount (Editor)

Overview

Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137274823
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/28/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	315
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ronald Langacker, Independent Scholar, USA Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, Belgiun Kam-yiu S. Pang, University of Macau Farzad Sharifian, Monash University, Australia Debra J. Occhi, Miyazaki International College, Japan Gary B. Palmer, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA Jennifer Thompson, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA Jeffrey Parkin, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA Elizabeth Harmon, Arizona State University, USA Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Aichi University, Japan Lionel Wee, National University of Singapore ?

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition; Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay, and Benjamin Blount PART I - COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 2. Culture and Cognition, Lexicon and Grammar; Ronald W. Langacker 3. Deliteralization and the Birth of 'Emotion'; Dirk Geeraerts 4. 'Overthrowing' Yesterday's ICM: Meaning Reversal in a Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese) Constructional Idiom; Kam-yiu S. Pang PART II: CULTURAL LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 5. Cultural Linguistics; Farzad Sharifian 6. Sloppy Selfhood: Metaphor, Embodiment, Animism, and Anthropomorphization in Japanese Language and Culture; Debra J Occhi 7. The Ceremonial Origins of Language; Gary B. Palmer, Jennifer Thompson, Jeffrey Parkin, Elizabeth Harmon PART III: INTERSECTION OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 8. On Intersubjective Co-construction of Virtual Space through Multimodal Means: A Case of Japanese Route-finding Discourse; Kuniyoshi Kataoka 9. Discovering Shared Understandings in Discourse: Prototypes and Stereotypes; Masataka Yamaguchi 10. Experiences as Resources: Metaphor and Life in Late Modernity; Lionel Wee 11. An Analysis of Metaphor Hedging in Psychotherapeutic Talk; Dennis Tay PART IV: SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 12. Situating Cultural Models in History and Cognition; Benjamin Blount ?