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Author Sickinger, Pawel, author.

Title Mental models across languages : the visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese / Pawel Sickinger.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages).
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Series Human cognitive processing (HCP) cognitive foundations of language structure and use, 1387-6724 ; volume 63
Human cognitive processing ; v. 63.
Summary "This book presents a study designed to triangulate the core meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese. Native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to baldness phenomena in an online experiment. These sets of visualizations are used to determine conceptual overlap or distance between expressions in the three languages, resulting in lexical-conceptual 'maps' for MALE BALDNESS. The study is discussed against the background of an embodied, perceptual symbol-based understanding of linguistic meaning. An additional part of the book applies this perspective to the issue of translation, developing a process model of translation activity based on the concept of cognitive equivalence. The book presents a novel approach to lexical semantics, tested through an innovative experimental method grounded in cognitive linguistic theory. It will be highly interesting to scholars in cognitive semantics, contrastive semantics, embodied cognition and cognitive translation studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Bonn, 2014.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mental models, perceptual simulation, and the conceptual-linguistic interface -- Translation, equivalence, and lexical meaning -- Methodology -- Results.
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Subject Mental representation.
Mental representation.
German language -- Psychological aspects.
German language -- Psychological aspects.
German language.
English language -- Psychological aspects.
English language -- Psychological aspects.
Japanese language -- Psychological aspects.
Japanese language -- Psychological aspects.
Japanese language.
Baldness -- Terminology.
Baldness.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sickinger, Pawel. Mental models across languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027201782 (DLC) 2018034771
ISBN 902726323X (electronic book)
9789027263230 (electronic book)
9789027201782 (hardcover)