Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780199266500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 344 str.

N. J. Enfield

Opis

Meanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This exciting collection presents eleven original studies of the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition, with data from languages and cultures from around the world. Contributors discuss a wide variety of grammatical phenomena. This book shows that the study of culture can help to understand how and why languages differ in the ways they do.

Recenzje

...a fascinating collection of essays and case studies exploring links between grammar and culture ... a rich introduction to a fertile field of study

O autorze

N. J. Enfield is a staff member in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. His work in semantic and grammatical description, contact and areal linguistics, gesture, and linguistic anthropology is based upon ongoing fieldwork in mainland Southeast Asia.