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In Search of the Cultural Motivation in Language: Girl and Woman in James Joyce's "Dubliners"

In Search of the Cultural Motivation in Language: Girl and Woman in James Joyce's "Dubliners"

Hardcover

Series: Sounds - Meaning - Communication, Book 11

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3631812507
ISBN13: 9783631812501
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Feb 19 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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.

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