John Benjamins Publishing Company, Linguistics of Temperature,
John Benjamins Publishing Company, Linguistics of Temperature,

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... Mehr

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