ISBN:
9780511862540
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (262 p.))
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
306.44/089
Keywords:
Anthropological linguistics
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Ethnolinguistik
;
Kulturelles System
Abstract:
'Ethnolinguistics' is the study of how language relates to culture and ethnicity. This book offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and war are expressed across cultures and ethnicities. James W. Underhill seeks to situate these key cultural concepts within four languages (English, French, Czech and German). Not only do these concepts differ from language to language, but they go on changing over time. The book explores issues such as how far meaning is politically and culturally influenced, how far language shapes the thought of ethnic groups and how far their thought shapes language, and the role of individuals in the consolidation of cultural concepts. It offers a clear and thought-provoking account of how concepts are understood and will be welcomed by those working in the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics
Abstract:
1. Hope, Obama and the neoconservative worldview -- 2. Ethnolinguistics -- 3. The shapes of truth: a comparative study of converging and diverging tendencies in the construction of truth in English, French, German and Czech -- 4. Love -- 5. Hate -- 6. War -- 7. A final word
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511862540
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