Books

Adam Głaz Przemysław Łozowski David S. Danaher The linguistic worldview or linguistic views of worlds? – The concepts of entwined relation between language and culture explored from the Slavic perspective. The relationship between language and culture has been debated by philosophers, linguists and social scientists alike. The very notion of the linguistic worldview rose to…

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James W. Underhill Creating Worldviews: metaphor, ideology, & language Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of…

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James W. Underhill Ethnolinguistics’ is the study of how language relates to culture and ethnicity. This book offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and war are expressed across cultures and ethnicities. James W. Underhill seeks to situate these key cultural concepts within four languages (English, French,…

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Language in the Context of Culture

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Humboldt, ou le sens du langage,Jürgen Trabant  This book had a crucial role to play in relaunching the reading of Humbodt in France, and beyond the borders of German-speaking lands. Trabant focuses on the way in which human beings are educated by language into becoming sensitive to the world. Humboldt’s eternal problem of the relationship…

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James W. Underhill With the loss of many of the world’s languages, it is important to question what will be lost to humanity with their demise. It is frequently argued that a language engenders a ‘worldview’, but what do we mean by this term? Attributed to German politician and philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), the…

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Jerzy BartmińskiAspects of Cognitive EthnolinguisticsJerzy Bartminskiedited by Jorg Zinkentranslated by Adam Głas The book provides an introduction into a highly developed, coherent, and extensively tested cognitive linguistic approach to lexical semantics, which is not currently accessible to readers of English. This makes the book important to researchers and students in lexical semantics, in Cognitive Linguistics and…

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Studies of the people, citizen, individual and Europe in Chinese, English, and other European Languages Mariarosaria Gianninoto & James Underhill Edinburgh UP, 2019

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Giorgio Casacchia Mariarosaria Gianinnoto Questa “Storia della linguistica cinese” si propone di delineare un quadro della storia degli studi sulla lingua cinese dalle origini fino alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo, in Cina e in Europa. La Cina presenta senza dubbio una delle tradizioni linguistiche più antiche al mondo, che contempla più di duemila anni di…

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Ottawa University Press 2016

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Jürgen Trabant Jürgen Trabant recounts the main stages in the development of Humboldt’s conception of language and discusses the importance of his thining-in-languge to philosophy, linguistics and anthropology. Trabant makes a convincing account that Humboldt’s concept of thinking together in language (Mitdenken) would help us understand the crucial importance of languages as shared modes of…

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Wilhelm von Humboldt : Das große LesebuchEdited by  Jürgen Trabant Professor Jürgen Trabant lectured for most of his career at the Freie Universität, in Berlin, on German and Romance Languages. He is one of the all time great specialists of Humboldt, and continues to actively promote his vision of language as a mode of perceiving…

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Horizonty kognitivně – kulturní lingvistiky II. od Irena Vaňková,Lucie Šťasná

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