Bert Peeters

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bert Peeters plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Most EFL curricula, irrespective of the variety of English they seek to impart, have little time for cultural values, focusing instead on “Culture with a capital C,” i.e., history, geography, cultural heritage, folklore, etc. Applied ethnolinguistics is a relatively new framework that has been… read more
Peeters, Bert, Marie-Odile Junker, Catherine E. Travis, Patrick Farrell, Pedro Perini-Santos and Brigid Maher 2006 Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Substantives; determines; quantifiersSemantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages, Peeters, Bert (ed.), pp. 41–77 | Article
Peeters, Bert, Marie-Odile Junker, Catherine E. Travis, Patrick Farrell, Pedro Perini-Santos and Brigid Maher 2006 Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Evaluators and descriptors; mental predicatesSemantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages, Peeters, Bert (ed.), pp. 79–109 | Article
Peeters, Bert, Marie-Odile Junker, Patrick Farrell, Pedro Perini-Santos and Brigid Maher 2006 Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Time and spaceSemantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages, Peeters, Bert (ed.), pp. 137–175 | Article
Peeters, Bert 2005 Commencer à + infinitif: métonymie intégrée et piste métaphoriqueLes Périphrases Verbales, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Nicole Le Querler (dir.), pp. 381–396 | Article
In Australian English, tall poppies are usually individuals who, on the basis of unwarranted self-adulation, itself a consequence of success, amassed fortune or fame, have become targets for criticism; or, less frequently, individuals who, overcome by success, amassed fortune or fame, and on the… read more
Peeters, Bert 2001 Does Cognitive Linguistics Live up to its Name?Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches, Dirven, René †, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu (eds.), pp. 83–106 | Article
Peeters, Bert 2000 “S’engager” vs. “to show restraint”: Linguistic and cultural relativity in discourse managementEvidence for Linguistic Relativity, Niemeier, Susanne and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 193 ff. | Article
Peeters, Bert 1996 Language and the mind: On concepts and valueOn Language and Consciousness, Jackendoff, Ray and Wallace Chafe, pp. 139–152 | Discussion
The distinction between I- and E-concepts, derived from Chomsky's (1986) distinction between I- and E-language, has become an integral part of Jackendoff's conceptual semantics. Where, if at all, are they to be found in the model of the mind proposed in Jackendoff's core paper, i.e., in which of… read more
Peeters, Bert 1994 16 Semantic and Lexical Universals in FrenchSemantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings, Goddard, Cliff and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.), pp. 423 ff. | Chapter
Peeters, Bert 1994 The things we do to make things make sensePragmatics & Cognition 2:2, pp. 357–379 | Article
Peeters, Bert 1990 Encore Une Fois ‘Où Tout Se Tient’Historiographia Linguistica 17:3, pp. 427–436 | Miscellaneous