Cultural Semantics And Social Cognition —— A Case Study on the Danish Universe of Meaning

----- 文化语义学和社会认知:意义的丹麦宇宙个案研究

ISBN: 9783110294606 出版年：2012 页码：354 Levisen, Carsten De Gruyter Mouton

With original, detailed studies in the keywords of Danish, this book breaksnew ground into the study of language and cultural values. Based onevidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as theDanish concept of hygge, roughly, 'pleasant togetherness', the bookprovides an integrative sociocognitive framework for studying andunderstanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worldswe live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather thatspeakers who "live by Danish concepts" are likely to pay attention to theirworld in ways suggested by "guiding" Danish keywords and lexical grids.Finally, it is demonstrated how, equipped with semantic methodology, wecan account for the meanings of even highly culture-specific anduntranslatable linguistic concepts.