Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition : : A Case Study on the Danish Universe of Meaning /

Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition : : A Case Study on the Danish Universe of Meaning / / Carsten Levisen.

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Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, ‘pleasant togetherness’), the book provid...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Levisen, Carsten,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 257
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Physical Description:1 online resource (333 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Figures and tables
  • Conventions and symbols
  • Chapter 1. Danish as a universe of meaning
  • Chapter 2. The NSM approach to linguistic and cultural analysis: Key issues in contemporary cultural semantics
  • Chapter 3. Roots of Danish sociality: Hygge as a cultural keyword and core cultural value
  • Chapter 4. “It’s all about being tryg”: Danish society, socialization and ethnopsychology
  • Chapter 5. The dark side of the Danes? A semantic and discursive analysis of janteloven ‘the Jante Law’
  • Chapter 6. Danish cognitive values in a cross-cultural perspective: Evidence from the cognitive verbs synes and mener
  • Chapter 7. Are Danes truly the happiest people on earth? Semantics meets “happiness research”
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion
  • Appendix. Explications and Cultural Scripts in Danish NSM
  • Notes
  • References
  • Author index
  • General index

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