29.4118, Books: Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives: Bromhead

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:47:24
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives: Bromhead

 


Title: Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives 
Series Title: Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 9  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/clscc.9 


Author: Helen Bromhead

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264008 Pages: 227 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264008 Pages: 227 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264008 Pages: 227 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200785 Pages: 227 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200785 Pages: 227 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200785 Pages: 227 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an
exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes
to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying
elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the contrastive
lexical semantics of certain landscape words in a number of languages. The aim
is to show how geographical vocabulary sheds light on the culturally and
historically shaped ways people see and think about the land around them.

Notably, the study presents landscape concepts as anchored in a human-centred
perspective, based on our cognition, vision, and experience in places. The
Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach allows an analysis of meaning
which is both fine-grained and transparent. The book is aimed, first of all,
at scholars and students of linguistics. Yet it will also be of interest to
researchers in geography, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural
studies, Australian Studies, and Australian Aboriginal Studies because of the
book’s cultural take.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=130454




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