Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 328 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9789027263230
Series Statement:
Human cognitive processing volume 63
Content:
This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment, native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to baldness phenomena. These sets of visualizations are used to determine conceptual overlap or distance between expressions in the three languages, resulting in lexical-conceptual 'maps' for MALE BALDNESS. The study is discussed against the background of an embodied, perceptual symbol-based understanding of linguistic meaning. A section of the book further applies this perspective to the issue of translation, developing a process model of translation based on the concept of cognitive equivalence.The book presents a novel approach to lexical semantics from a cognitive linguistic perspective, tested through a methodologically innovative experiment. It is a compelling read to scholars in cognitive semantics, contrastive semantics, embodied cognition and cognitive translation studies.
Note:
Dissertation Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 2014
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027201782
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sickinger, Pawel Mental models across languages Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 ISBN 9789027201782
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Deutsch
;
Englisch
;
Japanisch
;
Kognitive Linguistik
;
Hochschulschrift
URL:
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027263230
Bookmarklink
