Expressing the Self: Cultural Diversity and Cognitive Universals

ISBN-13: 9780198786658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Minyao Huang; Kasia M. Jaszczolt

Opis

The book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families. It offers an interdisciplinary understanding of expressing the self that comprises philosophy of mind at one end of the spectrum and cross-cultural pragmatics of self-expression at the other.

Recenzje

The collection under review not only contributes to our deeper understanding of how the self is perceived and expressed in diverse languages and cultures, but also points to what extent human cognitive universals are possible, despite the existing differences in languages and cultures.

O autorze

Minyao Huang is Research Fellow at Sun Yat Sen University. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. where was previously a Research Associate and Bye Fellow of Newnham College. Her research interests lie in semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language. She has published on vagueness, self-reference, indexicality, contextualism, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and modality, in journals such as Synthese and Pragmatics & Cognition, and in several edited volumes. Kasia M. Jaszczolt (D.Phil. Oxon, PhD Cantab, MAE) is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has published extensively on various topics in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. Her authored books include Meaning in Linguistic Interaction (OUP 2016), Representing Time (OUP 2009), Default Semantics (OUP 2005), Semantics and Pragmatics (Longman 2002), and Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions (Elsevier 1999). She is General Editor, with Louis de Saussure, of the OUP series 'Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought' and serves on numerous editorial boards. She has written over 90 research articles and edited 12 volumes including The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (CUP 2012).