posted on 2021-06-28, 09:27authored byJürgen Bohnemeyer
The
first four lectures revolve around field
semantics – 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?