Author by: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Languange: en Publisher by: John Benjamins Publishing Company Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 56 Total Download: 276 File Size: 51,9 Mb Description: The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature domain and what other uses the temperature expressions may have, e.g., when metaphorically referring to emotions (‘warm words’). The volume contains studies of more than 50 genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages and is unique in considering cross-linguistic patterns defined both by lexical and grammatical information. The detailed descriptions of the linguistic and extra-linguistic facts will serve as an important step in teasing apart the role of the different factors in how we speak about temperature – neurophysiology, cognition, environment, social-cultural practices, genetic relations among languages, and linguistic contact.

The book is a significant contribution to semantic typology, and will be of interest for linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers. Author by: Christopher John Fuller Languange: en Publisher by: C. PUBLISHERS Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 57 Total Download: 190 File Size: 47,8 Mb Description: This work focuses on how the large, amorphous and impersonal Indian State affects the everyday lives of its citizens. It argues that state and society merge in the daily lives of most Indians, and the boundary between them is blurred and negotiable according to social context and position. The contibutors adopt the postion, contary to that of many others, that most Indians are able actively to comprehend and use the institutions of the state for their own purposes, rather than being merely its passive victims.

Get this from a library! Automation studio 5 library files free. Navneet advanced dictionary: (English-English-Marathi). [Sudhakar R Prabhudesai; Vasant G Natu;].

Each chapter is based on empirical research and collectively they cover a wide range of anthropological and sociological material on modern India, from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in the north, Maharashtra in the west, West Bengal in the esat, and Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south. Uzori iz pryazhi s lyureksom. The book examines issues such as riot control, the Emergency, corruption irrigation, rural activism and education.