LINGUIST List 26.1348

Tue Mar 10 2015

Books: The Linguistics of Temperature: Koptjevskaja Tamm (ed.)

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>

Date: 03-Mar-2015
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaarbenjamins.nl>
Subject: The Linguistics of Temperature: Koptjevskaja Tamm (ed.)
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Title: The Linguistics of Temperature
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 107
Published: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.107

Editor: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269171 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269171 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269171 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 97.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206886 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206886 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 97.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206886 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 121.90
Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                            Cognitive Science
                            Semantics
                            Typology

Written In: English (eng)

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