Nurturing Language : : Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context / / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.
This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anthropological Linguistics [AL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXVI, 382 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of pictures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive anthropology -- 3 Lexical semantics and the contribution of cognitive linguistics -- 4 Spatial orientation -- 5 Language and habitual thought -- 6 Onomastics -- 7 The ethnography of communication -- 8 The contribution of interactional sociolinguistics -- 9 Emotions and the sounds of silence in a cross-cultural perspective -- 10 Cultural conceptions of face -- 11 Conversation analysis -- 12 Non-verbal communication -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Kinship terminology in Tima (Schneider-Blum and Veit 2022) -- Appendix II: Colour chart as used in Tornay (1978) -- Appendix III: Politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson 1987) -- Appendix IV: Transcriptional symbols in conversation analysis -- References -- Subject index -- Language index |
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Summary: | This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110726633 9783110766820 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993707 9783110993684 9783110791297 |
ISSN: | 2701-987X ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110726633 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. |