Dorothea Hoffmann

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dorothea Hoffmann plays a role.

Title

Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2020) v, 312 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
In this paper I provide a description of the role of body-part terms in expressions of emotion and other semantic extensions in MalakMalak, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Daly River area. Body-based expressions denote events, emotions, personality traits, significant places and people and… read more
Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe 2020 Introduction: Grammar, culture, and emotion tropesEmotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Introduction
This chapter is concerned with an analysis of narrative structure in the endangered non-Pama-Nyungan language Jaminjung and Australian Kriol. Previous analyses of Aboriginal narratives and story-telling techniques focused on the significance of place in plot and content (McGregor, 2005; Klapproth,… read more
Hoffmann, Dorothea 2012 20. Path salience in motion descriptions in JaminjungSpace and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 459–480 | Article
This paper aims to position Jaminjung, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of northern Australia within a typology of Path salience, building on Ibarretxe-Antuñano (2009). Path is an obligatory conceptual part of any motion event description; however, regardless of their lexicalisation patterns, languages… read more