Svenja Völkel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Svenja Völkel plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2214-3157 | E-ISSN 2214-3165
Titles
Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa
Edited by Nico Nassenstein, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023) vi, 161 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study
Svenja Völkel
[Culture and Language Use, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Austronesian languages | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2023 Named entities, naming practices, and their meanings – linguistic types and cultural contexts Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa, Nassenstein, Nico, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel (eds.), pp. 151–175 | Article
Although names exist in all languages of the world, their formal and functional manifestations show great diversity. Due to their embeddedness in socio-cultural and historical contexts, an anthropological-linguistic approach that brings together linguistic and cultural facts is required to… read more
2023 The brand names of craft gins in South Africa: An onomastic analysis Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa, Nassenstein, Nico, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel (eds.), pp. 224–239 | Article
Gin has become a very popular alcoholic drink, and is often used with various other mixers, often including fruit. The definition (Collins Paperback English Dictionary) reads as follows: “an alcoholic drink distilled from malted grain and flavoured juniper berries” (1994: 351). One of the most… read more
2023 Naming and labelling contexts of cultural importance in Africa: An introduction Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa, Nassenstein, Nico, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel (eds.), pp. 145–150 | Introduction
2021 Tongan honorifics and their underlying concepts of mana and tapu: A verbal taboo in its emic sense Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language, Keller, Melanie, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber (eds.), pp. 25–56 | Article
The Tongan language has honorific registers, called a ‘language of respect’ (Churchward 1953). These are two limited sets of lexemes used to refer to people of chiefly and kingly rank and thus honour the societal stratification. Anthropological-linguistic research reveals that these honorifics… read more
2017 Word classes and the scope of lexical flexibility in Tongan Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages, Lier, Eva van (ed.), pp. 445–495 | Article
Tongan is an Oceanic language belonging to the Polynesian subgroup. Based on previous work (Churchward 1953, Tchekhoff 1981, Broschart 1997), Tongan has been classified as a 'flexible' language by various typological approaches on word classes (Hengeveld 1992, Rijkhoff 1998, Croft 2001). This… read more
