Space and Time in Aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic

A Cross-Generational Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50623-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 462 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1024 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

What is the relationship between spatial and temporal representations in language and cognition? What is the role of culture in this relationship? I enter this discussion by offering a community-based, cross-generational study on the community of speakers of as-Sani' Arabic, members of a Negev Desert Bedouin tribe in Israel. The book presents the results of ten years of fieldwork, the linguistic and cognitive profiles of three generations, and first-hand narration of a century of history, from nomadism to sedentarism, between conservation, resilience, and change. Linguistic and cognitive representations change with lifestyle, culture, and relationships with nature and landscape. Language changes more rapidly than cognitive structures, and the relationship between spatial and temporal representations is complex and multifaceted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cerqueglini, Letizia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is a lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Language and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. Her interests focus on the relationship between language, cognition, and culture, especially in multilingual contexts, in the ancient and contemporary Semitic world.