
In Search of the Cultural Motivation in Language
Girl and Woman in James Joyces Dubliners
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
In Search of the Cultural Motivation in Language
Girl and Woman in James Joyces Dubliners
About this book
This book aims to expose a panchronic outlook on motivation behind the word within the paradigm of cognitive linguistics. On the example of girl and woman used in "Dubliners", the author emphasises the impact of culture on human conceptualisation which, in turn, can be traced in language. The results of her analysis reveal that the linguistic sign is not an arbitrary pairing of form and meaning, but rather a language unit motivated by culture.
This book will be of interest to those who wish to look more closely at the relationship between language, culture and human mind. Readers interested in Joyce will also find a great dose of cultural and biographical facts related to his life as well as his vision of females as conceptualised in "Dubliners".
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright information
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 IN SEARCH OF FORM-SUBSTANCE MOTIVATION IN THE WORD
- 2 THE WORD AS AN EXPERIENTIALLY MOTIVATED SIGN
- 3 THE WORD FROM A PANCHRONIC PERSPECTIVE
- 4 THE WORD IN RELATION TO CULTURE
- 5 CULTURE AS THE CONTEXT OF JOYCE’S CONCEPTUALISATIONS
- 6 THE WORD IN THE DICTIONARY vis-à-vis IN THE MIND
- CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX
- List of Figures
- REFERENCES