Doktorarbeit: Leistung der Wortbildung bei der kulturspezifischen Konzeptualisierung von menschlichen Körperteilen im Deutschen, Englischen und Slowakischen

Leistung der Wortbildung bei der kulturspezifischen Konzeptualisierung von menschlichen Körperteilen im Deutschen, Englischen und Slowakischen

Ein Sprachvergleich

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PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse, volume 211

Hamburg , 290 pages

ISBN 978-3-8300-8878-3 (print)

ISBN 978-3-339-08878-9 (eBook)

About this book deutschenglish

Learning a new language demands more than long vocabulary lists and grammar rules. To communicate in a language, you need to understand its cultural background.

Those who are aware of the culture can easily understand the seemingly strange variance behind vocabulary differences. The Germans, for example connect Kopf in Köpfchen with wisdom, whereas the English use brains in place of head. Knowing the differences in the usage of words is part of knowing how to use them and learning and teaching languages more efficiently.

This publication reveals some of the conceptual differences between words and thus presents an interesting insight into the possible differences between languages. A corpus study describes the conceptual deviation between German, English and Slovak word formation units which contain either head, hand, finger, leg or foot.

Furthermore, the comparison of similarities and differences in word formation shows the influence of body perception in a particular Kulturkreis on word formation. This comparative, quantitative and qualitative study demonstrates how strong an influence culture has on our thinking and thus on our language, and vice versa.

The choice of German, English and Slovak as the languages of the study enhances the analysis not only with the numerous interesting concepts, for Slovak has just one word describing both leg and foot at the same time. The analysis is based on a crosslinguistic comparison of the word formation units and grants a reader au fait with linguistics access to a description of the particular Kulturkreisen.

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