Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 240 Seiten
Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Semantics
General Trends and a Case Study of Swahili
Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 240 Seiten
Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Semantics
ISBN: 978-3-86288-578-7
Verlag: LINCOM
In general, the book contributes to research on embodiment in conceptualization and language use, it adds to studies on metaphor, metonymy and pragmatic inference in shaping lexical categories, it supports the hypothesis of regularity of semantic change mediated through cultural models and language conventionalization. It also provides new data and analyses of Swahili and additional languages discussed for comparison (e.g. English, Polish, Arabic, Turkish) and contains references to the issues of body part terms in over 80 other languages.