Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore : A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

• Tác giả: Ewa Masłowska
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3631795125
• ISBN-13: 978-3631796849
• ISBN-13: 978-3631796856
• ISBN-13: 978-3631796863
• ISBN: b15926
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 398.209438 Folk literature
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bern : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (410 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 239943
• Chủ đề: 1. Cultural studies; 2. Folklore, myths & legends; 3. Historical & comparative linguistics; 4. Lexicography; 5. Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; 6. Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; 7. Sociolinguistics

Tóm tắt

This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in language (dialect lexis, phraseology, speech acts). Employing the methodology and analytical tools of cognitive linguistics (preconceptual image schemas, cognitive scene, profiling of concepts, development of cognitive paths), the author reconstructs mental patterns at the heart of mythical thinking, linguistic actions and symbolic meanings, which reflect universal conceptual schemas and may serve as models for intercultural studies.