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Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition

The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

  • Masataka Yamaguchi
  • Dennis Tay
  • Benjamin Blount
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition

    1. Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
      Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay, Benjamin Blount
      Pages 1-24

  3. Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Language and Culture

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 25-25
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    2. Culture and Cognition, Lexicon and Grammar
      Ronald W. Langacker
      Pages 27-49
    3. Deliteralization and the Birth of ‘Emotion’
      Dirk Geeraerts
      Pages 50-67
    4. ‘Overthrowing’ Yesterday’s ICM: (Re)focusing of Meaning in a Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese) Constructional Idiom
      Kam-yiu S. Pang
      Pages 68-95

  4. Cultural Linguistic Approaches to Language and Culture

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 97-97
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    2. Advances in Cultural Linguistics
      Farzad Sharifian
      Pages 99-123
    3. Sloppy Selfhood: Metaphor, Embodiment, Animism, and Anthropomorphization in Japanese Language and Culture
      Debra J. Occhi
      Pages 124-144
    4. The Ceremonial Origins of Language
      Gary B. Palmer, Jennifer Thompson, Jeffrey Parkin, Elizabeth Harmon
      Pages 145-177

  5. Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 179-179
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    2. On Intersubjective Co-construction of Virtual Space through Multimodal Means: A Case of Japanese Route-Finding Discourse
      Kuniyoshi Kataoka
      Pages 181-216
    3. Discovering Shared Understandings in Discourse: Prototypes and Stereotypes
      Masataka Yamaguchi
      Pages 217-233
    4. Experiences as Resources: Metaphor and Life in Late Modernity
      Lionel Wee
      Pages 234-250
    5. An Analysis of Metaphor Hedging in Psychotherapeutic Talk
      Dennis Tay
      Pages 251-267

  6. Summary and Future Directions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 269-269
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    2. Situating Cultural Models in History and Cognition
      Benjamin Blount
      Pages 271-298
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 299-315
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Language culture cognition cognitive linguistics cognitive anthropology linguistic anthropology discourse analysis anthropology Embodiment language language and culture

Editors and affiliations

  • Masataka Yamaguchi
    • 1
  • Dennis Tay
    • 2
  • Benjamin Blount
    • 3
  1. 1.University of QueenslandAustralia
  2. 2.The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong
  3. 3.SocioEcological InformaticsUSA

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