Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics

Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics provides an introduction into a highly developed, coherent and extensively tested cognitive linguistic approach to lexical semantics, hitherto inaccessible to readers of English. This is an important book for researchers and students in lexical semantics, both in Cognitive Linguistics and beyond. It also strengthens the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise in general by showing that the main tenets of this approach are not an incidental historical development in a particular corner of the world, but rather are arrived at by scholars working in hugely different contexts independently of each other. This book contributes to the intellectual exchange between international academic discourses - an exchange that has often provided major impetus for scientific development, illustrated by the influence of the belated translations of works by Bakhtin, Lotman, Vygotsky, and Luria, among others.

The book provides an introduction into a highly developed, coherent, and extensively tested cognitive linguistic approach to lexical semantics, which is not currently accessible to readers of English. This makes the book important to researchers and students in lexical semantics, in Cognitive Linguistics and beyond. It also strengthens the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise in general, by showing that the main tenets of this approach are not an incidental historical development in a particular corner of the world, but rather are arrived at by scholars working in hugely different contexts independently of each other. The book should therefore have an appeal to all researchers in Cognitive Linguistics. Furthermore, the book constitutes a contribution to the intellectual exchange between international academic discourses that mostly develop independently of each other - an exchange that has often provided major impetus for scientific development, as illustrated by the influence of the belated translations of works by Bakhtin, Lotman, Vygotsky, and Luria, among others.

Jerzy Bartminski is Professor of Polish at the Marie Curie-Sk?odowska University in Lublin (Poland). His research interests focus on the relation between language, culture, and mind. He is the author of around 350 works, including eight books. Jorg Zinken is Senior Lecturer of Psychology of Communication and coordinator of the Language, Culture and Mind Research Group at the University of Portsmouth. His research interests cover topics from the interface between anthropological and cognitive linguistics, including universals and variation in multifunctionality patterns, contextual models of metaphor, and the semantics of prosody and syntax.