The Linguistics of Temperature

Editor

Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm | Stockholm University

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027206886 | EUR 115.00 | USD 173.00

e-Book –

ISBN 9789027269171 | EUR 115.00 | USD 173.00

The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature domain and what other uses the temperature expressions may have, e.g., when metaphorically referring to emotions (‘warm words’). The volume contains studies of more than 50 genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages and is unique in considering cross-linguistic patterns defined both by lexical and grammatical information. The detailed descriptions of the linguistic and extra-linguistic facts will serve as an important step in teasing apart the role of the different factors in how we speak about temperature – neurophysiology, cognition, environment, social-cultural practices, genetic relations among languages, and linguistic contact. The book is a significant contribution to semantic typology, and will be of interest for linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers.

[Typological Studies in Language, 107] 2015. xii, 934 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.107

Table of Contents

List of Maps | pp. viii–ix

Acknowledgements | pp. x–xii

Introducing “The linguistics of temperature”

Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm | pp. 1–40

PART 1. Africa

“Hard sun, hot weather, skin pain”: The cultural semantics of temperature expressions in Ewe and Likpe (West Africa)

Felix K. Ameka | pp. 43–72

The semantics and metaphorical extensions of temperature terms in Gurenɛ

Samuel Awinkene Atintono | pp. 73–106

Unravelling temperature terms in Sɛlɛɛ

Yvonne Agbetsoamedo and Francesca Di Garbo | pp. 107–127

Lexicalisation of temperature concepts in Gbaya (an Ubanguian language of C.A.R.)

Paulette Roulon-Doko | pp. 128–150

Climate, temperature and polysemous patterns in French and Wolof

Loïc-Michel Perrin | pp. 151–186

Temperature terms in selected African languages: A pilot study

Henrike Firsching | pp. 187–212

PART 2. Eurasia

Adjectives of temperature in Latvian

Natalia Perkova | pp. 216–253

What’s hot and what’s not in English and Serbian: A contrastive view on the polysemy of temperature adjectives

Katarina Rasulić | pp. 254–299

In the warmth of the Ukrainian temperature domain

Anna Kryvenko | pp. 300–332

Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology

Silvia Luraghi | pp. 333–353

Temperature terms in Modern Greek

Katerina Stathi | pp. 354–391

Temperature terms in Modern Eastern Armenian

Michael A. Daniel and Viktoria Khurshudian | pp. 392–439

Facts, feelings and temperature expressions in the Hindukush

Henrik Liljegren and Naseem Haider | pp. 440–470

Blowing hot, hotter, and hotter yet: Temperature vocabulary in Marathi

Prashant Pardeshi and Peter Edwin Hook | pp. 471–490

Temperature adjectives in Finnish

Päivi Juvonen and Ahti Nikunlassi | pp. 491–536

Temperature terms in Nganasan

Maria Brykina and Valentin Gusev | pp. 537–569

Temperature terms in Khalkha Mongolian

Benjamin Brosig | pp. 570–593

Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese

Hilário de Sousa, François Langella and N.J. Enfield | pp. 594–638

Subdomains of temperature concepts in Japanese

Mika Shindo | pp. 639–665

Why is it not cool? Temperature terms in Indonesian

Poppy Siahaan | pp. 666–700

PART 3. The Americas

Temperature domain in West Greenlandic

Justyn Salamon | pp. 703–720

“There is no thermostat in the forest” – the Ojibwe temperature term system

Hunter Lockwood and Susanne Vejdemo | pp. 721–741

Temperature terms and their meaning in Yucatec Maya (Mexico)

Olivier Le Guen | pp. 742–775

Temperature terms in Mapudungun

Fernando Zúñiga | pp. 776–791

Temperature terms in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia

Patience Epps | pp. 792–812

PART 4. Australia and Oceania

Bardi temperature terms

Claire Bowern and Laura Kling | pp. 815–831

Temperature terms in northern Vanuatu

Alexandre François | pp. 832–857

Temperature terms in Kamang and Abui, two Papuan languages of Alor

Antoinette Schapper | pp. 858–886

PART 5. Typology

The syntax of temperature predications

Regina Pustet | pp. 889–916

Subject Index | pp. 917–928

Language Index | pp. 929–930

Name Index | pp. 931–934

“A groundbreaking collaborative work in lexical typology, which will quite possibly be seen as the beginning of a new era in the study of world-wide word meanings.”

Martin Haspelmath, University of Leipzig

“A cool collection guaranteed to heat up the discussion on sensory language. Koptjevskaja-Tamm provides an inspiring volume on the linguistics of temperature.”

Asifa Majid, Radboud University Nijmegen

Cited by

Cited by 31 other publications

Order by:

Andrason, Alexander

2019. Weather in Polish: A Contribution to the Typology of Meteorological Constructions. Studia Linguistica 73:1 ► pp. 66 ff.

Andrason, Alexander & Marianna Visser

2019. Precipitation constructions in isiXhosa. South African Journal of African Languages 39:1 ► pp. 16 ff.

Beekhuizen, Barend, Maya Blumenthal, Lee Jiang, Anna Pyrtchenkov & Jana Savevska

2023. Truth be told: a corpus-based study of the cross-linguistic colexification of representational and (inter)subjective meanings. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 0:0

Coler, Matt

2021. Chapter 5. Exploring speech experiences. In Sensory Experiences [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 24], ► pp. 169 ff.

Coschignano, Serena

2021. The semantic network of temperature. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1 ► pp. 232 ff.

Dubois, Danièle, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler & Arthur Paté

2021. Chapter 1. The five senses and the cognitivist approach to perception. In Sensory Experiences [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 24], ► pp. 23 ff.

Fetterman, Adam K., Benjamin M. Wilkowski & Michael D. Robinson

2018. On Feeling Warm and Being Warm. Social Psychological and Personality Science 9:5 ► pp. 560 ff.

Hu, Chuan-Peng, Ji-Xing Yin, Siegwart Lindenberg, İlker Dalğar, Sophia C. Weissgerber, Rodrigo C. Vergara, Athena H. Cairo, Marija V. Čolić, Pinar Dursun, Natalia Frankowska, Rhonda Hadi, Calvin J. Hall, Youngki Hong, Jennifer Joy-Gaba, Dušanka Lazarević, Ljiljana B. Lazarević, Michal Parzuchowski, Kyle G. Ratner, David Rothman, Samantha Sim, Cláudia Simão, Mengdi Song, Darko Stojilović, Johanna K. Blomster, Rodrigo Brito, Marie Hennecke, Francisco Jaume-Guazzini, Thomas W. Schubert, Astrid Schütz, Beate Seibt, Janis H. Zickfeld & Hans IJzerman

2019. Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social thermoregulation principles. Scientific Data 6:1

Huisman, John L. A., Roeland van Hout & Asifa Majid

2023. Cross-linguistic constraints and lineage-specific developments in the semantics of cutting and breaking in Japonic and Germanic. Linguistic Typology 27:1 ► pp. 41 ff.

IJzerman, Hans, Siegwart Lindenberg, İlker Dalğar, Sophia S. C. Weissgerber, Rodrigo C. Vergara, Athena H. Cairo, Marija V. Čolić, Pinar Dursun, Natalia Frankowska, Rhonda Hadi, Calvin J. Hall, Youngki Hong, Chuan-Peng Hu, Jennifer Joy-Gaba, Dušanka Lazarević, Ljiljana B. Lazarević, Michal Parzuchowski, Kyle G. Ratner, David Rothman, Samantha Sim, Cláudia Simão, Mengdi Song, Darko Stojilović, Johanna K. Blomster, Rodrigo Brito, Marie Hennecke, Francisco Jaume-Guazzini, Thomas W. Schubert, Astrid Schütz, Beate Seibt, Janis H. Zickfeld, Simine Vazire & Randy McCarthy

2018. The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature. Collabra: Psychology 4:1

Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Przemysław Staniewski

2021. Rendering what the nose perceives. In The Linguistics of Olfaction [Typological Studies in Language, 131], ► pp. 1 ff.

Kashkin, Egor & Olga Vinogradova

2022. Chapter 6. The domain of surface texture. In The Typology of Physical Qualities [Typological Studies in Language, 133], ► pp. 161 ff.

Kemmerer, David

2023. Grounded Cognition Entails Linguistic Relativity: A Neglected Implication of a Major Semantic Theory. Topics in Cognitive Science 15:4 ► pp. 615 ff.

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria

2022. Chapter 8. Talking temperature with close relatives. In The Typology of Physical Qualities [Typological Studies in Language, 133], ► pp. 215 ff.

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria & Henrik Liljegren

2017. Semantic Patterns from an Areal Perspective. In The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics, ► pp. 204 ff.

Koptjevskaja‐Tamm, Maria & Susanne Vejdemo

2020. Prototype Semantics and Cross‐Linguistic Comparison. In The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, ► pp. 1 ff.

Levisen, Carsten & Karime Aragón

2017. Chapter 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary. In Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, ► pp. 315 ff.

Liu, Meili

2023. Towards a dynamic behavioral profile of the Mandarin Chinese temperature term re: a diachronic semasiological approach. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 19:2 ► pp. 289 ff.

Mensah, Eyo O. & Vivian Afi Dzokoto

2023. Melting intestines, red hearts, and scattering eyes: exploring embodiment in the Efik feeling lexica. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 44:1 ► pp. 49 ff.

O'Meara, Carolyn, Laura J. Speed, Lila San Roque & Asifa Majid

2019. Chapter 1. Perception metaphors. In Perception Metaphors [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19], ► pp. 1 ff.

Poulton, Thomas

2022. Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski: The linguistics of olfaction: Typological and diachronic approaches to synchronic diversity . Linguistic Typology 26:3 ► pp. 693 ff.

Rakhilina, Ekaterina & Tatiana Reznikova

2022. Chapter 1. Introduction. In The Typology of Physical Qualities [Typological Studies in Language, 133], ► pp. 1 ff.

Reznikova, Tatiana, Anna Panina & Victoriya Kruglyakova

2022. Chapter 3. A matter of degree?. In The Typology of Physical Qualities [Typological Studies in Language, 133], ► pp. 57 ff.

Ryzhova, Daria, Ekaterina V. Rakhilina & Liliya Kholkina

2019. Chapter 10. Approaching perceptual qualities. In Perception Metaphors [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19], ► pp. 185 ff.

San Roque, Lila & Bambi B. Schieffelin

2019. Chapter 17. Perception verbs in context. In Perception Metaphors [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19], ► pp. 347 ff.

Schapper, Antoinette

2022. Baring the bones: the lexico-semantic association of bone with strength in Melanesia and the study of colexification. Linguistic Typology 26:2 ► pp. 313 ff.

Speed, Laura J. & Asifa Majid

2020. Grounding language in the neglected senses of touch, taste, and smell. Cognitive Neuropsychology 37:5-6 ► pp. 363 ff.

Vanhove, Martine & Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed

2021. Olfactory, gustatory and tactile perception in Beja (North-Cushitic). In The Linguistics of Olfaction [Typological Studies in Language, 131], ► pp. 175 ff.

Viberg, Åke

2021. Why is smell special? A case study of a European language: Swedish. In The Linguistics of Olfaction [Typological Studies in Language, 131], ► pp. 35 ff.

[no author supplied]

2019. Chapter 18. Conclusion. In Sensory Linguistics [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20], ► pp. 235 ff.

[no author supplied]

2019. Sensory Linguistics [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20],

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 16 november 2023. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects