Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Preface: Linguistic and anthropological approaches to cognition......Page 7
Introduction: On construing the world......Page 14
Seeing it in more than one way......Page 35
Possession and possessive constructions......Page 62
What lack needs to have:A study in the cognitive semantics of privation......Page 91
The construal of cause:The case of cause prepositions......Page 104
Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction......Page 128
Metaphors of anger in Japanese......Page 145
Looking back at anger:Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns......Page 160
Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence......Page 187
The metaphorical concept of mind:\"Mental activity is manipulation\"......Page 203
Vantage theory......Page 236
The terror of Montezuma:Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of\"person\"......Page 282
Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction......Page 335
Genus, species, and vantages......Page 368
On construing the world of language......Page 379
Index of names......Page 392
Subject index......Page 397