«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» - A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)

ISBN-13: 9783631725139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 113 str.

Lilian Brise

Opis

The Book presents a study of lexical and phonological features of the language of emotions in Igala, one of Nigeria's over 500 languages. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework is used for the analysis of emotion concepts.

Spis treści

Cognitive Linguistics - Semantic primes - Conceptualization of emotions - Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) - Conceptual metaphors - Cognate object constructions - Polysemy - Igala - Nigeria - African Linguistics

O autorze

Lillian Brise studied English and English Linguistics at the Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) respectively. She also received a doctorate degree in Linguistics from the University of Ibadan. Lillian Brise worked as a guest lecturer at the University of Vechta (Germany) and as a researcher and contract lecturer of English Linguistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany).