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In this pathfinding book, Gary B. Palmer restores imagery to a central place in studies of language and culture by bringing together the insights of cognitive linguistics and anthropology to form a new theory of cultural linguistics.

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"This will certainly be one of the most important books ever published in linguistics... It has a grand new vision of how linguistics and anthropology should be reconstituted." --Elizabeth A. Brandt, Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. Goals and Concepts
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Three Traditions in Linguistic Anthropology
    • 3. The Emergence of Cognitive Linguistics
    • 4. The Synthesis of Cultural Linguistics
    • 5. Concepts
  • Part Two. Interpretations and Applications
    • 6. Connecting Languages to World Views
    • 7. Discourse and Narrative
    • 8. Metaphor and Metonymy
    • 9. Constructing and Deconstructing Word and Sentence Grammar
    • 10. Cultural Phonology
    • 11. Where We Are
  • Notes
  • References Cited
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/1996
      ISBN13: 9780292765696, 978-0292765696
      ISBN10: 029276569X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this pathfinding book, Gary B. Palmer restores imagery to a central place in studies of language and culture by bringing together the insights of cognitive linguistics and anthropology to form a new theory of cultural linguistics.

      Trade Review
      "This will certainly be one of the most important books ever published in linguistics... It has a grand new vision of how linguistics and anthropology should be reconstituted." --Elizabeth A. Brandt, Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Part One. Goals and Concepts
        • 1. Introduction
        • 2. Three Traditions in Linguistic Anthropology
        • 3. The Emergence of Cognitive Linguistics
        • 4. The Synthesis of Cultural Linguistics
        • 5. Concepts
      • Part Two. Interpretations and Applications
        • 6. Connecting Languages to World Views
        • 7. Discourse and Narrative
        • 8. Metaphor and Metonymy
        • 9. Constructing and Deconstructing Word and Sentence Grammar
        • 10. Cultural Phonology
        • 11. Where We Are
      • Notes
      • References Cited
      • Index

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