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687011358 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SLCS 174 Eb 15 9789027267184 06 10.1075/slcs.174 13 2016012838 DG 002 02 01 SLCS 02 0165-7763 Studies in Language Companion Series 174 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Embodiment in Latin Semantics</TitleText> 01 slcs.174 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.174 1 B01 William Michael Short Short, William Michael William Michael Short The University of Texas at San Antonio 01 eng 276 v 271 LAN009000 v.2006 CF 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CLASS Classical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGPSY Cognitive linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SEMAN Semantics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 <i>Embodiment in Latin Semantics</i> introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and processes play in conventional Latin expression across levels of lexical, syntactic, and textual meaning construction. It shows not only the extent to which universal aspects of human embodiment are reflected in Latin’s semantics, but also the ways in which Latin speakers capitalize on embodied understanding to express imaginative and culture-specific forms of meaning. In this way, the volume makes good on the potential of the embodiment hypothesis to enrich our understanding of meaning making in the Latin language, from the level of word sense to that of literary thematics. It should interest anyone concerned with how people, including in historical societies, create meaning through language. 05 English, in some ways an unusual language, is the most over-studied language in the history of the world. But English itself was highly influenced by Romance languages, and Romance languages account for a vast swath of the world’s most influential literature. Research into the cognitively modern human mind and its communicative possibilities cannot do better than focusing on Latin. This volume is the first major book-length effort in that direction. This volume is equally indispensable for students of Latin, Romance philologists and cognitive linguistics. Mark Turner, Case Western University 05 Although closely linked to recent developments in embodied semantics, the essays in Embodiment in Latin Semantics are exploratory rather than doctrinaire. They should be of great interest to students of Latin language and of literature, religion, kinship, and culture more generally in the Latin-speaking world. The editor has done an impressive job of assembling an intellectually diverse group of scholars with a shared outlook on the relationship between language and embodiment. Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California 05 This collection of essays breaks new ground in the application of cutting-edge cognitive science to the semantic structures of classical Latin. The volume’s international cast of contributors are pioneers in a field that promises to revolutionise not just Latin linguistics but the study of Latin literature in general. Their emphasis on embodiment in the ways that Latin and the authors who use it construct meaning goes beyond existing studies of (e.g.) cognitive metaphor in Latin and Greek to deploy a wider and more systematic range of cognitive linguistic concepts, providing a theoretically sophisticated perspective on the way that individual authors deploy the conceptual patterns that are embedded in the Latin language and in Roman life and thought. Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/slcs.174.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027259394.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027259394.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/slcs.174.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/slcs.174.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/slcs.174.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/slcs.174.hb.png 10 01 JB code slcs.174.01sho 1 14 14 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 William Michael Short Short, William Michael William Michael Short The University of Texas at San Antonio 10 01 JB code slcs.174.02nut 15 56 42 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A matter of perspective</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">matter of perspective</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Aspect, deixis, and textual exploitation in the prototype semantics of <i>eo</i> and <i>venio</i></Subtitle> 1 A01 Andrea Nuti Nuti, Andrea Andrea Nuti University of Pisa 20 aspect 20 cognitive phenomena 20 deixis 20 Latin motion verbs 20 prototype semantics 20 textual exploitation 01 <i>Eo</i> and <i>venio</i>, Latin&#8217;s primary motion verbs, are traditionally interpreted referring to an aspectual differentiation (telic <i>venio</i> vs. non-telic <i>eo</i>). The analysis of preclassical texts, however, show traces of an embryonic change towards a deictic-oriented use. <i>Venio</i>, in particular, displays prototypical instances centered around telicity vs. less typical occurrences governed by a deictic principle. Cognitive and pragmatic phenomena such as the interaction between spatial and temporal deixis or an ego-perspective appear to be relevant within this process, where aspectual or deictic orientations turn out to be functional in terms of textual exploitation. The comprehension of these features can account for the emergence, in Classical Latin, of a new <i>eo</i> &#8211; <i>venio</i> polarization where deixis progressively plays a pivot role. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.03kni 57 84 28 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Vertical scales in temporal <i>sub</i> constructions in Latin</TitleText> 1 A01 Erik Knighton Knighton, Erik Erik Knighton Case Western University 20 conceptual blending 20 construction grammar 20 frame semantics 20 image schemas 20 landmark/trajectory 20 polarity 20 primary metaphor 20 scalar implicature 01 Latin authors of the classical period used <i>sub </i>rarely and purposefully in a temporal construction like a polarity item with the dichotomous nouns <i>nox </i>and <i>lux</i> to convey the relative quantity of atmospheric light at dusk and dawn, implying a scale at its minimum value within an absolute frame of reference. This construction comes out of the spatial semantics of <i>sub</i> as &#8220;under&#8221; through a manipulation of metaphor, directional mappings from vertical to horizontal axes, and up/down and center/periphery image schemas. Beginning with the embodied experience of the sky as &#8220;above&#8221;, projections onto topological features such as mountains allows for negative and inceptive uses of <i>sub </i>for pragmatic scalar construal and implicature. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.04bru 85 114 30 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Luisa Brucale Brucale, Luisa Luisa Brucale University of Palermo 2 A01 Egle Mocciaro Mocciaro, Egle Egle Mocciaro University of Palermo 20 causation 20 direction 20 location 20 metaphor 20 metonymy 20 phrasal constructions 20 prepositional phrases 20 purpose 20 reason 20 space 01 This chapter examines the phrasal means of encoding the semantic role of purpose in Latin. After discussing the notion of semantic role and its use in cognitive linguistics, we illustrate the conceptual relation between the notional domains of space and causation. On this basis, we analyze the source of purpose expressions in Latin, which are mainly based on direction (bare dative and the allative markers, i.e. <i>ad</i>/<i>in</i> &#43; accusative), but also include prepositional phrases metaphorically derived from location (e.g. <i>per</i> &#43; accusative, <i>pr&#333;</i> &#43; ablative, <i>propter</i> &#43; accusative), or metonymically spreading from reason to purpose (as in the case of causal markers such as genitive &#43; <i>caus&#257;</i> and <i>grati&#257;</i>). 10 01 JB code slcs.174.05fed 115 140 26 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Ontological and orientational metaphors in Latin</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Evidence from the semantics of feelings and emotions</Subtitle> 1 A01 Chiara Fedriani Fedriani, Chiara Chiara Fedriani University of Bergamo 20 emotions 20 feelings 20 image schemas 20 metaphor 20 ontological metaphors 20 orientational metaphors 20 space 01 Ontological and orientational metaphors arise from general cognitive processes and rely on our embodied experience of the physico-spatial world, providing us with image schemas that we commonly exploit in order to interpret and express abstract notions in terms of spatial configurations. This is particularly true in the case of emotions and feelings, which are much less clearly defined than our bodily functions. Indeed, recurrent embodied patterns building bridges between spatial orientations and feelings occur in a great variety of languages. It has long been noted, for instance, that the vertical axis <i>up </i>vs. <i>down </i>offers the basis for portraying many experiential metaphors in terms of &#8216;happy/positive is up&#8217;, &#8216;sad/negative is down&#8217;. This paper shows that both ontological and orientational metaphorization is largely attested in this domain of experience in Latin, and provides corpus-based evidence for frequency and productivity effects and cross-linguistic comparisons that testify how the human body is a universal cognitive key to interpret and categorize emotions in modern as well as in ancient languages. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.06buc 141 176 36 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The metaphorical structuring of kinship in Latin</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">metaphorical structuring of kinship in Latin</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Alessandro Buccheri Buccheri, Alessandro Alessandro Buccheri EHESS, Paris – University of Siena 20 anthropology of ancient Rome 20 conceptual metaphor theory 20 cultural metaphors 20 kinship in ancient Rome 20 kinship terms 20 Latin 20 tree diagrams 01 In this paper, I analyze how concepts related to the domains of space and plants were used by Latin speakers to deliver their culturally specific understanding of (some aspects of) human kinship, in the light of the theory of conceptual metaphor. I go on to claim that analysis of the metaphorical layer of Latin lexicon of kinship can contribute to its &#8220;emic&#8221; description in ancient Rome, that is, framing it (as much as possible) in concepts near to the Romans&#8217; own experience. First, I describe the contribution that the domains of space and plants makes to the metaphorical structuring of Roman ideas about kinship. Then, I move on to their interplay and to their interaction with Roman images of time, which appear to be ultimately responsible for some of the seemingly odd features of these metaphors. I conclude by trying to spell out some differences between modern and ancient elaborations of the tree as a cultural image. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.07wha 177 208 32 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Abstract and embodied colors in Pliny the Elder’s <i>Natural History</i></TitleText> 1 A01 David Wharton Wharton, David David Wharton The University of North Carolina at Greensboro 20 abstract color concepts 20 color space 20 Latin color terms 20 structured metaphor 01 Some prominent, recent research on Latin color language asserts that the ancient Romans mostly lacked abstract color concepts, instead conceiving of &#8220;color&#8221; as intimately connected with the material substances that Latin color terms typically referred to. This chapter, through a detailed study of Pliny the Elder&#8217;s color language, shows not only that the Romans were fully capable of forming and expressing abstract color concepts, but also that they expressed relationships among these concepts using structured metaphors of location and motion in an abstract color space. The evidence from Pliny also suggests that these expressions derived from the everyday language of artisans, merchants, and farmers, and thus appear more frequently in technical, rather than literary, Latin. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.08rob 209 236 28 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Embodiment in Latin technical texts</TitleText> 1 A01 Courtney Ann Roby Roby, Courtney Ann Courtney Ann Roby Cornell University 20 directives 20 distributed cognition 20 enargeia 20 fictive motion 20 orientation 20 tacit knowledge 01 In this chapter I analyze Latin textual representations of the engagements between body and world entailed in the technical tasks of laying out spaces in the landscape and orienting oneself within them, emphasizing how rhetorical techniques of <i>enargeia</i> or &#8220;vividness&#8221; give the reader a sense of being physically present in those spaces. Drawing principally on the works of the Roman surveyors and Frontinus&#8217;s <i>De aquae ductu urbis Romae</i>, I focus on the road and water networks, and on the surveyed landscapes of Roman settlements. I give particular attention to linguistic techniques that vividly render the manual activities used to reify these spaces, from the surveyor&#8217;s manipulation of his instruments to the creation and decoding of the landscape of boundary markers. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.09dev 237 268 32 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Embodied historiography</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Models for reasoning in Tacitus’ <i>Annales</i></Subtitle> 1 A01 Jennifer J. Devereaux Devereaux, Jennifer J. Jennifer J. Devereaux University of Southern California 20 Annales 20 enargeia 20 historiography 20 Latin 20 mental simulation 20 metaphor 20 narrative 20 Tacitus 01 This paper argues that although scholars recognize the use of rhetorical devices in historiography, they overlook a deeper connection that has the potential to enrich our understanding of the historians&#8217; art and their potential impact on their audiences. Evaluating Latin narrative structured by embodied and extended metaphor, the author considers the rhetorical device of enargeia and evaluates its definition and use in terms of mental simulation. Exploring the possible role of embodied linguistic processing in the writing and reception of narrated experience, the author finds that historiography displays a narrative strategy centered on eliciting sensorimotor activity, and suggests that the narrative of Tacitus&#8217; <i>Annales</i> &#8220;works&#8221; persuasively and affectively by exploiting this narrative strategy to create specific models for reasoning about historical events. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.10ind 269 272 4 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20160511 2016 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027259394 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 95.00 EUR R 01 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 143.00 USD S 923011357 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SLCS 174 Hb 15 9789027259394 13 2016004380 BB 01 SLCS 02 0165-7763 Studies in Language Companion Series 174 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Embodiment in Latin Semantics</TitleText> 01 slcs.174 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.174 1 B01 William Michael Short Short, William Michael William Michael Short The University of Texas at San Antonio 01 eng 276 v 271 LAN009000 v.2006 CF 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CLASS Classical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGPSY Cognitive linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SEMAN Semantics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 <i>Embodiment in Latin Semantics</i> introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and processes play in conventional Latin expression across levels of lexical, syntactic, and textual meaning construction. It shows not only the extent to which universal aspects of human embodiment are reflected in Latin’s semantics, but also the ways in which Latin speakers capitalize on embodied understanding to express imaginative and culture-specific forms of meaning. In this way, the volume makes good on the potential of the embodiment hypothesis to enrich our understanding of meaning making in the Latin language, from the level of word sense to that of literary thematics. It should interest anyone concerned with how people, including in historical societies, create meaning through language. 05 English, in some ways an unusual language, is the most over-studied language in the history of the world. But English itself was highly influenced by Romance languages, and Romance languages account for a vast swath of the world’s most influential literature. Research into the cognitively modern human mind and its communicative possibilities cannot do better than focusing on Latin. This volume is the first major book-length effort in that direction. This volume is equally indispensable for students of Latin, Romance philologists and cognitive linguistics. Mark Turner, Case Western University 05 Although closely linked to recent developments in embodied semantics, the essays in Embodiment in Latin Semantics are exploratory rather than doctrinaire. They should be of great interest to students of Latin language and of literature, religion, kinship, and culture more generally in the Latin-speaking world. The editor has done an impressive job of assembling an intellectually diverse group of scholars with a shared outlook on the relationship between language and embodiment. Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California 05 This collection of essays breaks new ground in the application of cutting-edge cognitive science to the semantic structures of classical Latin. The volume’s international cast of contributors are pioneers in a field that promises to revolutionise not just Latin linguistics but the study of Latin literature in general. Their emphasis on embodiment in the ways that Latin and the authors who use it construct meaning goes beyond existing studies of (e.g.) cognitive metaphor in Latin and Greek to deploy a wider and more systematic range of cognitive linguistic concepts, providing a theoretically sophisticated perspective on the way that individual authors deploy the conceptual patterns that are embedded in the Latin language and in Roman life and thought. Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/slcs.174.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027259394.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027259394.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/slcs.174.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/slcs.174.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/slcs.174.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/slcs.174.hb.png 10 01 JB code slcs.174.01sho 1 14 14 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 William Michael Short Short, William Michael William Michael Short The University of Texas at San Antonio 10 01 JB code slcs.174.02nut 15 56 42 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A matter of perspective</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">matter of perspective</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Aspect, deixis, and textual exploitation in the prototype semantics of <i>eo</i> and <i>venio</i></Subtitle> 1 A01 Andrea Nuti Nuti, Andrea Andrea Nuti University of Pisa 20 aspect 20 cognitive phenomena 20 deixis 20 Latin motion verbs 20 prototype semantics 20 textual exploitation 01 <i>Eo</i> and <i>venio</i>, Latin&#8217;s primary motion verbs, are traditionally interpreted referring to an aspectual differentiation (telic <i>venio</i> vs. non-telic <i>eo</i>). The analysis of preclassical texts, however, show traces of an embryonic change towards a deictic-oriented use. <i>Venio</i>, in particular, displays prototypical instances centered around telicity vs. less typical occurrences governed by a deictic principle. Cognitive and pragmatic phenomena such as the interaction between spatial and temporal deixis or an ego-perspective appear to be relevant within this process, where aspectual or deictic orientations turn out to be functional in terms of textual exploitation. The comprehension of these features can account for the emergence, in Classical Latin, of a new <i>eo</i> &#8211; <i>venio</i> polarization where deixis progressively plays a pivot role. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.03kni 57 84 28 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Vertical scales in temporal <i>sub</i> constructions in Latin</TitleText> 1 A01 Erik Knighton Knighton, Erik Erik Knighton Case Western University 20 conceptual blending 20 construction grammar 20 frame semantics 20 image schemas 20 landmark/trajectory 20 polarity 20 primary metaphor 20 scalar implicature 01 Latin authors of the classical period used <i>sub </i>rarely and purposefully in a temporal construction like a polarity item with the dichotomous nouns <i>nox </i>and <i>lux</i> to convey the relative quantity of atmospheric light at dusk and dawn, implying a scale at its minimum value within an absolute frame of reference. This construction comes out of the spatial semantics of <i>sub</i> as &#8220;under&#8221; through a manipulation of metaphor, directional mappings from vertical to horizontal axes, and up/down and center/periphery image schemas. Beginning with the embodied experience of the sky as &#8220;above&#8221;, projections onto topological features such as mountains allows for negative and inceptive uses of <i>sub </i>for pragmatic scalar construal and implicature. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.04bru 85 114 30 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Luisa Brucale Brucale, Luisa Luisa Brucale University of Palermo 2 A01 Egle Mocciaro Mocciaro, Egle Egle Mocciaro University of Palermo 20 causation 20 direction 20 location 20 metaphor 20 metonymy 20 phrasal constructions 20 prepositional phrases 20 purpose 20 reason 20 space 01 This chapter examines the phrasal means of encoding the semantic role of purpose in Latin. After discussing the notion of semantic role and its use in cognitive linguistics, we illustrate the conceptual relation between the notional domains of space and causation. On this basis, we analyze the source of purpose expressions in Latin, which are mainly based on direction (bare dative and the allative markers, i.e. <i>ad</i>/<i>in</i> &#43; accusative), but also include prepositional phrases metaphorically derived from location (e.g. <i>per</i> &#43; accusative, <i>pr&#333;</i> &#43; ablative, <i>propter</i> &#43; accusative), or metonymically spreading from reason to purpose (as in the case of causal markers such as genitive &#43; <i>caus&#257;</i> and <i>grati&#257;</i>). 10 01 JB code slcs.174.05fed 115 140 26 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Ontological and orientational metaphors in Latin</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Evidence from the semantics of feelings and emotions</Subtitle> 1 A01 Chiara Fedriani Fedriani, Chiara Chiara Fedriani University of Bergamo 20 emotions 20 feelings 20 image schemas 20 metaphor 20 ontological metaphors 20 orientational metaphors 20 space 01 Ontological and orientational metaphors arise from general cognitive processes and rely on our embodied experience of the physico-spatial world, providing us with image schemas that we commonly exploit in order to interpret and express abstract notions in terms of spatial configurations. This is particularly true in the case of emotions and feelings, which are much less clearly defined than our bodily functions. Indeed, recurrent embodied patterns building bridges between spatial orientations and feelings occur in a great variety of languages. It has long been noted, for instance, that the vertical axis <i>up </i>vs. <i>down </i>offers the basis for portraying many experiential metaphors in terms of &#8216;happy/positive is up&#8217;, &#8216;sad/negative is down&#8217;. This paper shows that both ontological and orientational metaphorization is largely attested in this domain of experience in Latin, and provides corpus-based evidence for frequency and productivity effects and cross-linguistic comparisons that testify how the human body is a universal cognitive key to interpret and categorize emotions in modern as well as in ancient languages. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.06buc 141 176 36 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The metaphorical structuring of kinship in Latin</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">metaphorical structuring of kinship in Latin</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Alessandro Buccheri Buccheri, Alessandro Alessandro Buccheri EHESS, Paris – University of Siena 20 anthropology of ancient Rome 20 conceptual metaphor theory 20 cultural metaphors 20 kinship in ancient Rome 20 kinship terms 20 Latin 20 tree diagrams 01 In this paper, I analyze how concepts related to the domains of space and plants were used by Latin speakers to deliver their culturally specific understanding of (some aspects of) human kinship, in the light of the theory of conceptual metaphor. I go on to claim that analysis of the metaphorical layer of Latin lexicon of kinship can contribute to its &#8220;emic&#8221; description in ancient Rome, that is, framing it (as much as possible) in concepts near to the Romans&#8217; own experience. First, I describe the contribution that the domains of space and plants makes to the metaphorical structuring of Roman ideas about kinship. Then, I move on to their interplay and to their interaction with Roman images of time, which appear to be ultimately responsible for some of the seemingly odd features of these metaphors. I conclude by trying to spell out some differences between modern and ancient elaborations of the tree as a cultural image. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.07wha 177 208 32 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Abstract and embodied colors in Pliny the Elder’s <i>Natural History</i></TitleText> 1 A01 David Wharton Wharton, David David Wharton The University of North Carolina at Greensboro 20 abstract color concepts 20 color space 20 Latin color terms 20 structured metaphor 01 Some prominent, recent research on Latin color language asserts that the ancient Romans mostly lacked abstract color concepts, instead conceiving of &#8220;color&#8221; as intimately connected with the material substances that Latin color terms typically referred to. This chapter, through a detailed study of Pliny the Elder&#8217;s color language, shows not only that the Romans were fully capable of forming and expressing abstract color concepts, but also that they expressed relationships among these concepts using structured metaphors of location and motion in an abstract color space. The evidence from Pliny also suggests that these expressions derived from the everyday language of artisans, merchants, and farmers, and thus appear more frequently in technical, rather than literary, Latin. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.08rob 209 236 28 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Embodiment in Latin technical texts</TitleText> 1 A01 Courtney Ann Roby Roby, Courtney Ann Courtney Ann Roby Cornell University 20 directives 20 distributed cognition 20 enargeia 20 fictive motion 20 orientation 20 tacit knowledge 01 In this chapter I analyze Latin textual representations of the engagements between body and world entailed in the technical tasks of laying out spaces in the landscape and orienting oneself within them, emphasizing how rhetorical techniques of <i>enargeia</i> or &#8220;vividness&#8221; give the reader a sense of being physically present in those spaces. Drawing principally on the works of the Roman surveyors and Frontinus&#8217;s <i>De aquae ductu urbis Romae</i>, I focus on the road and water networks, and on the surveyed landscapes of Roman settlements. I give particular attention to linguistic techniques that vividly render the manual activities used to reify these spaces, from the surveyor&#8217;s manipulation of his instruments to the creation and decoding of the landscape of boundary markers. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.09dev 237 268 32 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Embodied historiography</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Models for reasoning in Tacitus’ <i>Annales</i></Subtitle> 1 A01 Jennifer J. Devereaux Devereaux, Jennifer J. Jennifer J. Devereaux University of Southern California 20 Annales 20 enargeia 20 historiography 20 Latin 20 mental simulation 20 metaphor 20 narrative 20 Tacitus 01 This paper argues that although scholars recognize the use of rhetorical devices in historiography, they overlook a deeper connection that has the potential to enrich our understanding of the historians&#8217; art and their potential impact on their audiences. Evaluating Latin narrative structured by embodied and extended metaphor, the author considers the rhetorical device of enargeia and evaluates its definition and use in terms of mental simulation. Exploring the possible role of embodied linguistic processing in the writing and reception of narrated experience, the author finds that historiography displays a narrative strategy centered on eliciting sensorimotor activity, and suggests that the narrative of Tacitus&#8217; <i>Annales</i> &#8220;works&#8221; persuasively and affectively by exploiting this narrative strategy to create specific models for reasoning about historical events. 10 01 JB code slcs.174.10ind 269 272 4 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20160511 2016 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 625 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 32 24 01 02 JB 1 00 95.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 100.70 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 24 02 02 JB 1 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 24 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 143.00 USD