Full Description
Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and processes play in conventional Latin expression across levels of lexical, syntactic, and textual meaning construction. It shows not only the extent to which universal aspects of human embodiment are reflected in Latin's semantics, but also the ways in which Latin speakers capitalize on embodied understanding to express imaginative and culture-specific forms of meaning. In this way, the volume makes good on the potential of the embodiment hypothesis to enrich our understanding of meaning making in the Latin language, from the level of word sense to that of literary thematics. It should interest anyone concerned with how people, including in historical societies, create meaning through language.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Short, William Michael); 2. A matter of perspective: Aspect, deixis, and textual exploitation in the prototype semantics of eo and venio (by Nuti, Andrea); 3. Vertical scales in temporal sub constructions in Latin (by Knighton, Erik); 4. The embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin (by Brucale, Luisa); 5. Ontological and orientational metaphors in Latin: Evidence from the semantics of feelings and emotions (by Fedriani, Chiara); 6. The metaphorical structuring of kinship in Latin (by Buccheri, Alessandro); 7. Abstract and embodied colors in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (by Wharton, David); 8. Embodiment in Latin technical texts (by Roby, Courtney Ann); 9. Embodied historiography: Models for reasoning in Tacitus' Annales (by Devereaux, Jennifer J.); 10. Index
