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The first four lectures revolve around field semantics β research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic study of how humans communicate about the world in terms of the meaning categories of the languages they speak. Together, the lectures present one of the first comprehensive introductions to either topic. A thread pervading the lectures involves the following questions: how much do languages vary in how they represent reality? To what extent does this variation reflect cultural differences? To what extent does it influence the nonverbal thinking of the speakers?
Contents
Note on Supplementary Material
Preface
About the Author
Lecture 1 Setting the Stage: Meaning, Cognition, Culture, and
Crosslinguistic Variation
Lecture 2 Field Semantics: Studying Meaning without Native
Speaker Intuitions
Lecture 3 Data Gathering in Linguistics: a Practical
Epistemology of Elicitation Techniques
Lecture 4 Sources of Evidence: Semantic and Pragmatic
Diagnostics
Lecture 5 Ethnosemantics and Cognitive Anthropology:
a Short History
Lecture 6 Semantic Typology: the Crosslinguistic Study of
Semantic Categorization
Lecture 7 Framing Whorf: Reference Frames in Language,
Culture, and Cognition
Lecture 8 Doing the Math: Quantitative Methods in
Semantic Typology
Lecture 9 Event Description: Variation at the
Syntax-Semantics Interface
Lecture 10 The Language-Specificity of Conceptual Structure:
Taking Stock
About the Series Editor
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