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The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective

Author : Ning Yu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110213346
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective written by Ning Yu and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. In contrast to the Western dualist view, Chinese takes on a more holistic view that sees the heart as the center of both emotions and thought. The contrast characterizes two cultural traditions that have developed different conceptualizations of person, self, and agent of cognition. The concept of "heart" lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. Diachronically, this book traces the roots of its conception in ancient Chinese philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine. Along the synchronic dimension, it not only makes a systematic analysis of conventionalized expressions that reflect the underlying cultural models and conceptualizations, as well as underlying conceptual metaphors and metonymies, but also attempts a textual analysis of an essay and a number of poems for their metaphoric and metonymic images and imports contributing to the cultural models and conceptualizations. It also takes up a comparative perspective that sheds light on similarities and differences between Western and Chinese cultures in the understanding of the heart, brain, body, mind, self, and person. The book contributes to the understanding of the embodied nature of human cognition situated in its cultural context, and the relationship between language, culture, and cognition.

Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture

Author : Louise Sundararajan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319182218
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture written by Louise Sundararajan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mind-opening take on indigenous psychology presents a multi-level analysis of culture to frame the differences between Chinese and Western cognitive and emotive styles. Eastern and Western cultures are seen here as mirror images in terms of rationality, relational thinking, and symmetry or harmony. Examples from the philosophical texts of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and classical poetry illustrate constructs of shading and nuancing emotions in contrast to discrete emotions and emotion regulation commonly associated with traditional psychology. The resulting text offers readers bold new understandings of emotion-based states both familiar (intimacy, solitude) and unfamiliar (resonance, being spoiled rotten), as well as larger concepts of freedom, creativity, and love. Included among the topics: The mirror universes of East and West. In the crucible of Confucianism. Freedom and emotion: Daoist recipes for authenticity and creativity. Chinese creativity, with special focus on solitude and its seekers. Savoring, from aesthetics to the everyday. What is an emotion? Answers from a wild garden of knowledge. Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture has a wealth of research and study potential for undergraduate and graduate courses in affective science, cognitive psychology, cultural and cross- cultural psychology, indigenous psychology, multicultural studies, Asian psychology, theoretical and philosophical psychology, anthropology, sociology, international psychology, and regional studies.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language

Author : Chan Sin-Wai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317382498
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language written by Chan Sin-Wai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by a number of eminent academics in the field, this volume will meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of anyone interested in the Chinese language: from Sinologists to Chinese linguists, as well as teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. The encyclopedia explores a range of topics: from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference offers a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests. The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Wen Xu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351034693
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics written by Wen Xu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.

Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese

Author : Shu-Ling Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009186728
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese by : Shu-Ling Wu

Download or read book Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese written by Shu-Ling Wu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the key cognitive linguistics concepts that aid analysis of Chinese and inform L2 Chinese teaching and learning.

Embodiment in Cross-linguistic Studies

Author : Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Publisher : Brill's Studies in Language, C
ISBN 13 : 9789004392403
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Embodiment in Cross-linguistic Studies written by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk and published by Brill's Studies in Language, C. This book was released on 2019 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The 'Head'edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk adds to linguistic studies on embodied cognition and conceptualization while focusing on one body part term from a comparative perspective. The 'head' is investigated as a source domain for extending multiple concepts in various target domains accessed via metaphor or metonymy. The contributions in the volume provide comparative and case studies based on analyses of the first-hand data from languages representing all continents and diversified linguistic groups, including endangered languages of Africa, Australia and Americas. The book offers new reflections on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change. The findings contribute to general research on metaphor, metonymy, and polysemy within a paradigm of cognitive linguistics.

Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004548645
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the conceptualization of the ‘heart’ as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphorical and metonymical meanings. The present book offers a rich selection of papers which observe the lexeme ‘heart’ from diverse perspectives, employing primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics as well as formal methodologies of lexicology and morphology. The findings are unique and novel contributions to the research of body-part semantics, embodied cognition and metaphor analysis, and in general, the investigation of the interconnectedness of language, culture, cognition and perception about the human body.

“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition

Author : Yanying Lu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261776
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis “Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition by : Yanying Lu

Download or read book “Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition written by Yanying Lu and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major roads, this book is the junction that unites them by arguing that selfhood occurs at their interface. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to unpack manifestations and perceptions of ‘self’ in the contemporary Chinese diaspora discourse from the perspectives of Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and the newly developed Cultural Linguistics. This book not only discusses empirical and theoretical issues on the conceptualisation and communication of social identity in a cross-cultural context, it also reveals how traditional and modern ideas in Chinese culture are interacting with those of other world cultures. Considering the power of language, enduring and emerging beliefs and stances that permeate these speakers’ views on their social being and outlooks on life impart their significance in cross-cultural communication and pragmatics. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition

Author : M. Yamaguchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137274824
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition written by M. Yamaguchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317743180
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture written by Farzad Sharifian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. This Handbook features thirty-three newly commissioned chapters which cover key areas such as cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics offer insights into the historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice of each topic, and explore the potential future directions of the field show readers how language and culture research can be of practical benefit to applied areas of research and practice, such as intercultural communication and second language teaching and learning. Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.

Embodiment via Body Parts

Author : Zouheir A. Maalej
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027285136
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Embodiment via Body Parts written by Zouheir A. Maalej and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on, in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.

Variation in Metonymy

Author : Weiwei Zhang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110453657
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Variation in Metonymy by : Weiwei Zhang

Download or read book Variation in Metonymy written by Weiwei Zhang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph presents new findings and perspectives in the study of variation in metonymy, both theoretical and methodological. Theoretically, it sheds light on metonymy from an onomasiological perspective, which helps to discover the different conceptual or lexical "pathways" through which a concept or a group of concepts has been designated by going back to the source concepts. In addition, it broadens the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics research on metonymy by looking into how metonymic conceptualization and usage may vary along various dimensions. Three case studies explore significant variation in metonymy across different languages, time periods, genres and social lects. Methodologically, the monograph responds to the call in Cognitive Linguistics to adopt usage-based empirical methodologies. The case studies show that quantification and statistical techniques constitute essential parts of an empirical analysis based on corpus data. The empirical findings demonstrate the essential need to extend research on metonymy in a variationist Cognitive Linguistics direction by studying metonymy’s cultural, historical and social-lectal variation.

Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition

Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110294656
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition written by Carsten Levisen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, ‘pleasant togetherness’), the book provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in ways suggested by central Danish keywords and lexical grids. By means of a sophisticated semantic methodology, the author accounts for the meanings of even highly culture-specific and untranslatable linguistic concepts. The book offers new tools for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. Additionally, it contributes to the emerging discipline of cultural semantics, and to the ongoing debates of linguistic diversity, metalanguage, and the use of linguistic evidence in studies of culture and social cognition.

The "Other" Psychology of Julian Jaynes

Author : Brian J. McVeigh
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845409736
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The "Other" Psychology of Julian Jaynes written by Brian J. McVeigh and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his provocative but critically acclaimed theory about the origin of introspectable mentality, Julian Jaynes argued that until the late second millennium people possessed a different psychology: a "two-chambered" (bicameral) neurocultural arrangement in which a commanding "god" guided, admonished, and ordered about a listening "mortal" via voices, visions, and visitations. Out of the cauldron of civilizational collapse and chaos, an adaptive self-reflexive consciousness emerged better suited to the pressures of larger, more complex sociopolitical systems. Though often described as boldly iconoclastic and far ahead of it time, Jaynes's thinking actually resonates with a "second" or "other" psychological tradition that explores the cultural-historical evolution of psyche. Brian J. McVeigh, a student of Jaynes, points out the blind spots of mainstream, establishment psychology by providing empirical support for Jaynes's ideas on sociohistorical shifts in cognition. He argues that from around 3500 to 1000 BCE the archaeological and historical record reveals features of hallucinatory super-religiosity in every known civilization. As social pressures eroded the god-centered authority of bicamerality, an upgraded psychology of interiorized self-awareness arose during the Late Bronze Age Collapse. A key explanatory component of Jaynes's theorizing was how metaphors constructed a mental landscape populated with "I's" and "me's" that replaced a declining worldview dominated by gods, ancestors, and spirits. McVeigh statistically substantiates how linguo-conceptual changes reflected psychohistorical developments; because supernatural entities functioned in place of our inner selves, vocabularies for psychological terms were strikingly limited in ancient languages. McVeigh also demonstrates the surprising ubiquity of "hearing voices" in modern times, contending that hallucinations are bicameral vestiges and that mental imagery - a controllable, semi-hallucinatory experience - is the successor to the divine hallucinations that once held societies together. This thought-provoking work will appeal to anyone interested in the transformative power of metaphors, the development of mental lexicons, and the adaptive role of hallucinations.

Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society

Author : Hans-Georg Wolf
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259704
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society written by Hans-Georg Wolf and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far, under-researched from a cultural linguistic perspective – spirituality, emotionality, and society. The analytical tools provided by Cultural Linguistics, such as cultural conceptualizations and cultural metaphors, are not only applied to various corpora and types of texts but also recalibrated and renegotiated. As a result, the studies in this collective volume showcase a rich body of work that contributes to the manifestation of Cultural Linguistics as an indispensable paradigm in modern language studies. Being a testament to the inseparability of language and culture, this book will enlighten academics, professionals and students working in the fields of Cultural Linguistics, sociology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies.

Reimagining Communication: Experience

Author : Michael Filimowicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351015338
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Communication: Experience written by Michael Filimowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Communication: Experience explores the embodied and experiential aspects of media forms across a variety of contemporary platforms, uses, content variations, audiences, and professional roles. A diverse body of contributions offer a broad range of perspectives on memory, embodiment, time, and more. The volume is organized to reflect a pedagogical approach of carefully laddered and sequenced topics, which supports meaningful, project-based learning in addition to a course’s traditional writing requirements. As the field of Communication Studies has been continuously growing and reaching new horizons, this volume presents a survey of the foundational theoretical and methodological approaches that continue to shape the discipline, synthesizing the complex relationship of communication to forms of experience in a uniquely accessible and engaging way. This is an essential introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication, media, and interactive technologies, with an interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new technologies.

Cognitive Linguistics - A Survey of Linguistic Subfields

Author : Ewa Dąbrowska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110626454
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Linguistics - A Survey of Linguistic Subfields written by Ewa Dąbrowska and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters provide comprehensive surveys of the major subfields of Cognitive Linguistics. Apart from phonology, construction grammar and lexical semantics, the areas of language use, language acquisition and literary discourse are comprehensively presented.