Overview

The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature domain and what other uses the temperature expressions may have, e.g., when metaphorically referring to emotions (‘warm words’). The volume contains studies of more than 50 genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages and is unique in considering cross-linguistic patterns defined both by lexical and grammatical information. The detailed descriptions of the linguistic and extra-linguistic facts will serve as an important step in teasing apart the role of the different factors in how we speak about temperature – neurophysiology, cognition, environment, social-cultural practices, genetic relations among languages, and linguistic contact. The book is a significant contribution to semantic typology, and will be of interest for linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers.

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Author:   Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   107
Weight:   1.800kg
ISBN:  

9789027206886

ISBN 10:   9027206880
Pages:   934
Publication Date:   11 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. List of Maps; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introducing The linguistics of temperature (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 4. PART 1. Africa; 5. Hard sun, hot weather, skin pain : The cultural semantics of temperature expressions in Ewe and Likpe (West Africa) (by Ameka, Felix K.); 6. The semantics and metaphorical extensions of temperature terms in Gurene (by Atintono, Samuel Awinkene); 7. Unravelling temperature terms in Selee (by Agbetsoamedo, Yvonne); 8. Lexicalisation of temperature concepts in Gbaya (an Ubanguian language of C.A.R.) (by Roulon-Doko, Paulette); 9. Climate, temperature and polysemous patterns in French and Wolof (by Perrin, Loic-Michel); 10. Temperature terms in selected African languages: A pilot study (by Firsching, Henrike); 11. PART 2. Eurasia; 12. Adjectives of temperature in Latvian (by Perkova, Natalia); 13. What's hot and what's not in English and Serbian: A contrastive view on the polysemy of temperature adjectives (by Rasulic, Katarina); 14. In the warmth of the Ukrainian temperature domain (by Kryvenko, Anna); 15. Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology (by Luraghi, Silvia); 16. Temperature terms in Modern Greek (by Stathi, Katerina); 17. Temperature terms in Modern Eastern Armenian (by Daniel, Michael A.); 18. Facts, feelings and temperature expressions in the Hindukush (by Liljegren, Henrik); 19. Blowing hot, hotter, and hotter yet: Temperature vocabulary in Marathi (by Pardeshi, Prashant); 20. Temperature adjectives in Finnish (by Juvonen, Paivi); 21. Temperature terms in Nganasan (by Brykina, Maria); 22. Temperature terms in Khalkha Mongolian (by Brosig, Benjamin); 23. Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese (by de Sousa, Hilario); 24. Subdomains of temperature concepts in Japanese (by Shindo, Mika); 25. Why is it not cool? Temperature terms in Indonesian (by Siahaan, Poppy); 26. PART 3. The Americas; 27. Temperature domain in West Greenlandic (by Salamon, Justyn); 28. There is no thermostat in the forest - the Ojibwe temperature term system (by Lockwood, Hunter); 29. Temperature terms and their meaning in Yucatec Maya (Mexico) (by Guen, Olivier Le); 30. Temperature terms in Mapudungun (by Zuniga, Fernando); 31. Temperature terms in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia (by Epps, Patience); 32. PART 4. Australia and Oceania; 33. Bardi temperature terms (by Bowern, Claire); 34. Temperature terms in northern Vanuatu (by Francois, Alexandre); 35. Temperature terms in Kamang and Abui, two Papuan languages of Alor (by Schapper, Antoinette); 36. PART 5. Typology; 37. The syntax of temperature predications (by Pustet, Regina); 38. Subject Index; 39. Language Index; 40. Name Index

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