Format:
xi, 227 Seiten
ISBN:
9780367858797
,
9781032081670
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in linguistics 32
Note:
This book explores the concept of linguistic worldview, which is underpinned by the underlying idea that languages, in their lexicogrammatical structures and patterns of usage, encode interpretations of reality that symbolize, shape, and construct speakers’ cultural experience. The volume traces the development of the linguistic worldview conception from its origins in ancient Greece to 20th-century linguistic relativity, Western ethnosemantics, parallel movements in eastern Europe, and contemporary inquiry into languacultures. It outlines the important theoretical issues, surveys the major approaches, and identifies areas of both convergence and discrepancy between them. By proposing three sample analyses, the book highlights the relevant questions addressed in different but compatible models, as well as identifies possible avenues of their further development. Finally, it considers several domains of potential interest to the linguistic worldview agenda. Because inquiry into linguistic worldviews concerns the sphere of the symbolic and the cultural, it touches upon the very essence of human lives. This book will be of interest to scholars working in cultural linguistics, ethnolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, comparative semantics, and translation studies
Additional Edition:
10.4324/9781003018803
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781003018803
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Głaz, Adam, 1970 - Linguistic worldview(s) New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 ISBN 9781003018803
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Sprache
;
Weltbild
;
Kognitive Linguistik
