Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
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Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition

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Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition

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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.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110294651
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Figures and tables
  4. Conventions and symbols
  5. Chapter 1. Danish as a universe of meaning
  6. Chapter 2. The NSM approach to linguistic and cultural analysis: Key issues in contemporary cultural semantics
  7. Chapter 3. Roots of Danish sociality: Hygge as a cultural keyword and core cultural value
  8. Chapter 4. “It’s all about being tryg”: Danish society, socialisation and ethnopsychology
  9. Chapter 5. The dark side of the Danes? A semantic and discursive analysis of janteloven ‘the Jante Law’
  10. Chapter 6. Danish cognitive values in cross-cultural perspective: Evidence from the cognitive verbs synes and mener
  11. Chapter 7. Are Danes truly the happiest people on earth? Semantics meets “happiness research”
  12. Chapter 8. Conclusion
  13. Appendix
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Author index
  17. General index