Language As a Memory Carrier Of Perceptually-Based Knowledge. Selected Aspects Of Imagery In Chaucer’sKnight’s TaleAndTroilusAndCriseyde

• Authors: Katarzyna Stadnik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the paper, we address the question of the relation between language and culture from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. While accounting for the role of language as an aid to cultural transmission in maintaining the community’s conceptual order, we address the question of whether the concept of a linguistic worldview aptly captures the interplay between language and culture. We suggest that, due to cumulative cultural evolution spurred by the incessant development of human knowledge, layers of conceptualisations accumulate over time. It is proposed that this palimpsest of conceptualisations results from human interaction that transcends the constraints of the present moment, encompassing the past and present, as well as delineating possible developments of the community’s future conceptual order.

Keywords

EN

language and culture; linguistic worldview; memory carrier

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 127-141

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-07-24

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Stadnik

• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2015-0024