Traveling Conceptualizations

A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican

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ORCID logoAndrea Hollington | University of Cologne
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Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The book constitutes a first study of these phenomena from a cognitive-linguistic perspective and investigates traveling conceptualizations at the intersection of language, culture and cognition. The author explores Jamaican linguistic practices in different domains namely conceptualizations involving parts of the (human) body, conceptualizations of events, roles and relations underlying serial verb constructions, and conceptualizations of kinship and names. The study can be regarded as an innovative contribution as it looks not only at linguistic expressions on the surface but discusses the underlying cultural and cognitive basis of semantic structures. The study thus aims at making African-Jamaican connections on the conceptual level visible and also discusses notions of consciousness, agency and emblematicity.
[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015.  xxiv, 242 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Frąckiewicz, Olga
2020. Nigerian Pidgin English phraseology in the context of areal influences. In West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication, DOI logo
Hollington, Andrea
2017. Chapter 5. Emotions in Jamaican. In Consensus and Dissent [Culture and Language Use, 19],  pp. 81 ff. DOI logo
Kornacki, Paweł
2022. Wok (‘work’) as a Melanesian Cultural Keyword: Exploring Semantic Insights from an Indigenous Tok Pisin Play. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies :31/2  pp. 77 ff. DOI logo
Masiola, Rosanna & Renato Tomei
2016. Language Redemption: Bob Marley in Translation. In Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean,  pp. 99 ff. DOI logo
Nassenstein, Nico, Alice Mitchell & Andrea Hollington
2024. Chapter 1. Introduction. In Anthropological Linguistics [Culture and Language Use, 23],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Pawlak, Nina
2020. Introduction. In West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication, DOI logo
Seel, Laura & Nico Nassenstein
2024. Chapter 13. “Show your feelings!”. In Anthropological Linguistics [Culture and Language Use, 23],  pp. 331 ff. DOI logo
Tomei, Renato & Andrea Hollington
2020. Transatlantic linguistic ties: The impact of Jamaican on African youth language practices. Linguistics Vanguard 6:s4 DOI logo

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Main BIC Subject

CFB: Sociolinguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2015013358 | Marc record