Danko Sipka

Geography of Words (eBook, PDF)

Vocabulary and Meaning in the World's Languages

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Languages around the world organize their lexicons, or vocabularies, in a myriad of different ways. This book is a celebration of global linguistic diversity, bringing together fascinating cases from a wide range of languages to explore how and why this lexical variation occurs. Each of the thirty-six short chapters shows how different culturally-specific words, relating to a range of phenomena such as kinship, colour, space, time, objects, smells, and animals, vary across languages and geographical locations. It also explains the mechanisms of development in vocabularies, showing why this variation occurs, and how languages and cultures interact, to deepen the reader's understanding of one of the most important aspects of linguistics. Assuming little to no prior knowledge of linguistics, and introducing concepts in an accessible way, this book is an entertaining, informative read for anyone who wants to learn more about the incredible variation and diversity of the human lexicon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108899543
• Artikelnr.: 66182564

Autorenporträt

Danko ipka is Professor of Slavic Languages and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University. His research interests include lexicography, lexicology, morphology, and computational linguistics. His publications encompass over 150 papers and reviews as well as thirty books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. How Words are Studied: A. What is a word?
B. The internal affairs of words
C. The external affairs of words
Part II. How Words are Carved Out: 1. 1 =2, 5, 6 or 7
2. Beer eyes and wine-dark sea
3. Second cousins twice removed
4. I have three sons and a child
5. Concepts on the chopping block
6. Unripe bananas and ripe tomatoes
7. Mums and clocks mean death
8. The past is in front of us and the future is behind our back
9. Far and wide, here and there
10. Bottles with throats
11. Setting the TV on fire and extinguishing it
Part III. How Things are Done with Words
12. Traduttore, traditore!
13. May you suffer and remember
14. I screw your 300 Gods
15. Either he is crazy or his feet stink
16. Shoo and scat
17. A dog and pony show
18. Blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada
19. Acts of darkness
20. This for that
21. Me Tarzan, you Jane
22. How many languages do you speak?
23. Harmful and shitty people
Part IV. How Words are Born: 24. Cars with tails and leadfooted drivers
25. Monkey, dog, worm, snail, i.e. 'Crazy A'
26. Rovers and ski-rolls
27. Extra crispy soccer players
28. Chinglish and Eurenglish
29. Comrade, Sir
30. Beer and whiskey mighty risky
31. SOFs and SOWs
Part V. Where Words Live: 32. Old-lady torturers, horse killers, and bad mornings
33. A fleeing bus
34. I wish that you enjoy in what you have deserved!
35. Happy hunting ground
36. A language is a dialect with an army and navy
Part VI. A Word After: Part VII. Words about Words.