| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Culture and language use, 1879-5838 ; v. 14 |
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Culture and language use ; v. 14. 1879-5838
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| Contents |
Methods and data: A note on spelling and the language examples -- Critical reflections and positioning |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
| Summary |
Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The book constitutes a first study of these phenomena from a cognitive-linguistic perspective and investigates traveling conceptualizations at the intersection of language, culture and cognition. The author explores Jamaican linguistic practices in different domains namely conceptualizations involving parts of the (human) body, conceptualizations of events, roles and relations underlying serial verb constructions, and conceptualizations of kinship and names. The study can be regarded as an innovative contribution as it looks not only at linguistic expressions on the surface but discusses the underlying cultural and cognitive basis of semantic structures. The study thus aims at making African-Jamaican connections on the conceptual level visible and also discusses notions of consciousness, agency and emblematicity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
African languages -- Jamaica
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Languages in contact -- Jamaica
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Anthropological linguistics -- Jamaica
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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African languages
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Anthropological linguistics
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Languages in contact
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Jamaica
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015017485 |
| ISBN |
9789027268402 |
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9027268401 |
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9027202974 |
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9789027202970 |
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