Sweet Mouths and Strong Heads across the Atlantic and Pacific: A semantic analysis of body image constructions in English-lexifier Creoles

Micah Corum; Carsten Levisen

Sweet Mouths and Strong Heads across the Atlantic and Pacific: A semantic analysis of body image constructions in English-lexifier Creoles

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Abstract

In this presentation,we analyze usesofsweetmouthandstrongheadin Bislama andNigerianPidgin, which speakers usemetaphoricallyandmetonymicallyto conveycultural an dethno -psychologicalnoti ons.Wetakeadouble-prongapproachcombininginsightsfromcognitivemetaphortheoryand NSMsemantics to studyhistoricalmacro-semanticoperations incombination withthelocal micro-semanticconfiguration.T he studyo fb odyi mageconstructionsallows fora nuancing ofcurrentdiscussion on universalityand relativityinC reole stu

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	2020
Status	Udgivet - 2020
Begivenhed	The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America - Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans , USA Varighed: 2 jan. 2020 → 5 jan. 2020 https://www.linguisticsociety.org/event/lsa-2020-annual-meeting

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Konference	The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
Lokation	Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Land/Område	USA
By	New Orleans
Periode	02/01/2020 → 05/01/2020
Internetadresse	https://www.linguisticsociety.org/event/lsa-2020-annual-meeting

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Sweet Mouths and Strong Heads across the Atlantic and Pacific : A semantic analysis of body image constructions in English-lexifier Creoles. / Corum, Micah; Levisen, Carsten.

2020. 180 Abstract fra The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans , Louisiana, USA.

Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Konferenceabstrakt til konference › Forskning › peer review

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