Culture and Language
Culture and Language
Author(s): Zoltán KövecsesSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: the relationship between culture and language; image schemas; categorization; framing; metaphor; meaning making;
Summary/Abstract: I propose that both culture and language are about how human beings make meaning in the world. I briefly introduce various cognitive mechanisms that human being use in making sense of their experiences. Given such mechanisms as categorization, framing, and metaphor, and so on, I discuss three examples of meaning making.
Journal: Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 55/2010
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 339-345
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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