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Author Taylor, John R

Title Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (424 pages)
Series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; v. 82
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM
Contents Preface: Linguistic and anthropological approaches to cognition Robert; Introduction: On construing the world; Seeing it in more than one way; Possession and possessive constructions; What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation; The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions; Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction; Metaphors of anger in Japanese; Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns; Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence
The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation"Vantage theory; The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person"; Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction; Genus, species, and vantages; On construing the world of language; Index of names; Subject index; Contributors
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Subject Language and culture -- Congresses
Cognitive grammar -- Congresses
Categorization (Linguistics) -- Congresses
Categorization (Linguistics)
Cognitive grammar
Language and culture
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author MacLaury, Robert E
ISBN 9783110809305
3110809303