Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition

by Carsten Levisen
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
Author: Carsten Levisen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110294656
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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 provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in ways suggested by central Danish keywords and lexical grids. By means of a sophisticated semantic methodology, the author accounts for the meanings of even highly culture-specific and untranslatable linguistic concepts. The book offers new tools for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. Additionally, it contributes to the emerging discipline of cultural semantics, and to the ongoing debates of linguistic diversity, metalanguage, and the use of linguistic evidence in studies of culture and social cognition.

Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition

by Carsten Levisen
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
Author: Carsten Levisen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2013-03-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110294668
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Words do not emerge in a cultural vacuum. They are revealing of speakers' values, cognitive preferences and social practices. With an engaging study of Danish cultural keywords, this book offers a new framework for understanding language-particular universes of meaning and lays the ground for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. The book is of compelling interest to anyone interested in language and cultural values, as well as for students and scholars in Scandinavian and European studies.

Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

by Anna Wierzbicka
Semantics, Culture, and Cognition
Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1992
Genre: Intercultural communication
ISBN: 0195073266
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This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition

by Donal E. Carlston
The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition
Author: Donal E. Carlston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 967
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199730016
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This handbook provides a comprehensive review of social cognition, ranging from its history and core research areas to its relationships with other fields. The 43 chapters included are written by eminent researchers in the field of social cognition, and are designed to be understandable and informative to readers with a wide range of backgrounds.

Culture, Society, and Cognition

by David B. Kronenfeld
Culture, Society, and Cognition
Author: David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2008-12-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110211483
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This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual system. Members of a cultural community share the system but not all of the system's content, making culture a system of parallel distributed cognition. This book presents such a system, and then elaborates a version of "cultural models" that relates actions to goals, values, emotional content, and context, and that allows both systematic generative capacity and systematic variation across cultural and subcultural groups. Such models are offered as the basic units of cultural action. Culture thus conceived is shown as a tool that people use rather than as something deeply internalized in their psyches.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics

by Martin Pütz
Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Author: Martin Pütz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270279
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This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics (e.g. Labov) and cognitive sociolinguistics, seek to explore and systematize the key theoretical and epistemological bases for the emergence of this socio-cognitive paradigm. More specifically, the papers, originally published in Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2 (2012), focus on terms and concepts which are foundational to the discussion of Cognitive Sociolinguistics such as the role of cognition in the sociolinguistic enterprise; the social recontextualization of cognition; variability in cognitive systems; usage-based conceptions of language; pragmatic variation and cultural models of thought; cultural conceptualizations and lexicography as well as cognitive processing models and perceptual dialectology. All the papers are anchored in instrumental empirical data analysis. The volume provides a welcome contribution to the field for anyone interested in Cognitive Linguistics and its new developments. The seven papers included in this book were originally presented at the 34th International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, which took place in March 2010 at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany).

“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition

by Yanying Lu
“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
Author: Yanying Lu
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027261776
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This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major roads, this book is the junction that unites them by arguing that selfhood occurs at their interface. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to unpack manifestations and perceptions of ‘self’ in the contemporary Chinese diaspora discourse from the perspectives of Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and the newly developed Cultural Linguistics. This book not only discusses empirical and theoretical issues on the conceptualisation and communication of social identity in a cross-cultural context, it also reveals how traditional and modern ideas in Chinese culture are interacting with those of other world cultures. Considering the power of language, enduring and emerging beliefs and stances that permeate these speakers’ views on their social being and outlooks on life impart their significance in cross-cultural communication and pragmatics. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Language and Social Minds

by Vittorio Tantucci
Language and Social Minds
Author: Vittorio Tantucci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108484824
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Proposes a new empirical model to analyse how humans can express social cognition at different levels of complexity.

Historical Semantics and Cognition

by Andreas Blank
Historical Semantics and Cognition
Author: Andreas Blank
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110804190
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Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for American and European cognitive linguists to confront representatives of different directions in European structural semantics. Papers are in sections on theories and models, descriptive categories, and case studies, and examine areas such as cognitive and structural semantics, diachronic prototype semantics, synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, and intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change.