TY - BOOK
T1 - Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
T2 - A Case Study on the Danish Universe of Meaning
AU - Levisen, Carsten Almann
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This book is the first to undertake a semantic analysis of Danish word meanings and ethnopragmatic analysis of Danish speech practices, values and attitudes, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework (Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002a; Wierzbicka 1996; Peeters 2006; Goddard 2008c). It is also the first linguistic work to systematically investigate the relationship between everyday Danish language and Danish cultural values, showing how the meanings of cultural keywords relate to tacit norms, attitudes, values and beliefs widely held in the Danish speech community. Along with leading scholars in cognitive and cultural linguistics (see e.g. Wierzbicka 2006a) this book argues that language is a key to unlocking "the universe of meaning" of any culture, and that linguistic semantics is of great importance for understanding everyday cognition in its cultural context. The aim of this book is to explore and explain salient aspects of the Danish universe of meaning as it has been captured in Danish language.
AB - This book is the first to undertake a semantic analysis of Danish word meanings and ethnopragmatic analysis of Danish speech practices, values and attitudes, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework (Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002a; Wierzbicka 1996; Peeters 2006; Goddard 2008c). It is also the first linguistic work to systematically investigate the relationship between everyday Danish language and Danish cultural values, showing how the meanings of cultural keywords relate to tacit norms, attitudes, values and beliefs widely held in the Danish speech community. Along with leading scholars in cognitive and cultural linguistics (see e.g. Wierzbicka 2006a) this book argues that language is a key to unlocking "the universe of meaning" of any culture, and that linguistic semantics is of great importance for understanding everyday cognition in its cultural context. The aim of this book is to explore and explain salient aspects of the Danish universe of meaning as it has been captured in Danish language.
KW - Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
UR - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/174754320
U2 - 10.1515/9783110294651
DO - 10.1515/9783110294651
M3 - Book
SN - 9783110294651
SN - 9783110294606
T3 - Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs (TiLSM)
BT - Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
PB - De Gruyter Mouton
CY - Berlin, Germany
ER -