Traveling Conceptualizations : A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican.

Traveling Conceptualizations -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Lists, tables, maps and pictures -- Abbreviations -- List 1: Index of languages -- List 2: African languages mentioned in the present study in discussions of cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican -- Map 1: African languages mentioned in the present study in discussions of cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview of the chapters -- 2. Methods and data -- 2.1 A note on spelling and the language examples -- 2.2 Critical reflections and positioning -- 3. Cultural conceptualizations and cognitive linguistics -- 3.1 Metaphor and metonymy -- 3.2 Other conceptualizations -- 3.2.1 Categories -- Anchor 53 -- 3.2.3 Cultural model -- 3.2.4 Blending and mental spaces -- 3.2.5 Event conceptualization -- 3.3 Language, culture and cognition in a nutshell -- 3.4 The role of consciousness -- 3.5 Linguistic processes -- 4. The Jamaican setting -- 4.1 The sociohistoric background of Jamaica -- 4.2 Approaches to Jamaican and African influences in Jamaican - previous studies -- 4.2.1 Previous studies on African influences in Jamaica -- 4.2.1.1 Jamaican -- 4.2.1.1.1 Lexicon. The lexicon of Jamaican constitutes a major field of interest among scholars researching African influences in Jamaican. Since the pioneering work of linguists like Frederic Cassidy and Robert Le Page in the 1960s (especially 1967) reas -- 4.2.1.1.2 Phonology, phonotactics and suprasegmentals. Several features of the phonology, phonotactics, suprasegmentals and intonation patterns have been discussed with regard to African influences. African provenance has been suggested for a range of dev.

4.2.1.1.3 Morphosyntax/grammar. African influences in the grammar of ­Jamaican have been suggested for many Jamaican features. In fact, some scholars have proclaimed that grammar is the language area in which Jamaican bears the strongest evidence of Afric -- 4.2.1.1.4 Semantic structures. Studies dealing with African influences in the domain of semantics are considered to be most closely linked to the topic of the present thesis. Yet they constitute a field of study which is marked by a huge ­desideratum. In -- 4.2.1.2 Linguistic practices and African influences in specific communities of ­practice -- 4.2.1.2.1 Maroons. Maroon societies, which existed and still exist in various parts of the Caribbean and the Americas, are communities which were founded by runaway slaves who fled the plantations and settled usually in hard-accessible areas. Maroonage co -- 4.2.1.2.2 Kumina. Kumina is usually described as a Kongo-derived religious tradition (cf. Stewart 2005). The religious (and linguistic) practices of Kumina chiefly reflect influences from Kikongo (and other Bantu languages of West-­Central Africa such as -- 4.2.1.2.3 Nago. Apart from the Maroons and Kumina a few other and smaller communities were founded in Jamaica (see Farquharson 2012). These include the Nago (and Etu), communities of Yoruba speakers in Western Jamaica who had settled (as indentured labore -- 4.2.1.2.4 Rasta Talk. Rasta Talk (also known as Dread Talk or Iyaric cf. Pollard 1994 -- Birhan 1981) is a linguistic variety in Jamaica which emerged in the 20th century, long after the abolition of slavery and the emergence of the other linguistic varieti -- 4.3 A new perspective -- 4.3.1 Language attitudes -- 4.3.2 Language ideologies and awareness -- 5. Body parts and conceptualizations -- 5.1 The role of body parts in African conceptualizations and languages.

5.2 Some aspects of the Jamaican body -- 5.3 Body parts in Jamaican and African conceptualizations and their linguistic encodings -- 5.4 Conclusion to the chapter -- 6. Serial verb constructions and conceptualizations -- 6.1 The notion of serial verb constructions -- 6.2 Serial verb constructions from a cognitive perspective -- 6.3 Serial verb constructions in West Africa: An areal phenomenon -- 6.4 Serial verb constructions in Jamaican -- 6.4.1 Asymmetrical SVCs -- 6.4.1.1 Instrumental SVCs -- 6.4.1.2 Motion SVCs -- 6.4.1.2.1 Purposive SVCs. Beyond the "straightforward" directional SVCs ­illustrated above, the verbs go and kom (and maybe also gaan to a lesser extend) can be used to express other concepts which are semantically extended from the directional/motional r -- 6.4.1.3 Benefactive SVCs -- 6.4.1.4 Comparative SVCs -- 6.4.1.5 Completive aspect -- 6.4.1.6 Complementizer -- 6.4.2 Symmetrical SVCs -- 6.4.3 Argument-sharing and switch-subject SVCs -- 6.4.4 Focus in SVCs -- 6.5 Conclusion and outlook: Idiomaticity and emblematicity -- 7. Kinship, names and conceptualizations of identity -- 7.1 Kinship and the African community model -- 7.2 Jamaican kinship terms and conceptualizations -- 7.2.1 Kinship and the domains of healing, the spiritual world and leadership -- 7.3 Concluding remarks on kinship -- 7.4 Names and naming practices in Jamaica -- 7.4.1 Personal names -- 7.4.1.1 Day Names -- 7.4.1.2 Reconnecting to Africa: Rastafari names -- 7.4.2 Kromanti -- 7.4.3 Nyabingi -- 7.5 Concluding remarks on names -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Online sources -- Appendix -- A. Macka B - "Jamaican" (discussion in chapter four) [Note: The transcription is based on the English orthography] -- B. Paradaks -- C. Jamaican Sinting - the diverse Jamaican accent.

D. Tarrus Riley "Don't Judge" (discussion in chapter seven) [Note: The transcription is based on the English orthography] -- Language Index -- Subject Index.

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The book constitutes a first study of these phenomena from a cognitive-linguistic perspective and investigates traveling conceptualizations at the intersection of language, culture and cognition. The author explores Jamaican linguistic practices in different domains namely conceptualizations involving parts of the (human) body, conceptualizations of events, roles and relations underlying serial verb constructions, and conceptualizations of kinship and names. The study can be regarded as an innovative contribution as it looks not only at linguistic expressions on the surface but discusses the underlying cultural and cognitive basis of semantic structures. The study thus aims at making African-Jamaican connections on the conceptual level visible and also discusses notions of consciousness, agency and emblematicity.

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