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Resumo: No campo da linguística conceitual, grande número de pesquisadores e estudiosos assume que existe um domínio conceitual natural e pré-linguístico acerca da noção de tempo e que a organização linguística deste conceito é... more
Resumo: No campo da linguística conceitual, grande número de pesquisadores e estudiosos assume que existe um domínio conceitual natural e pré-linguístico acerca da noção de tempo e que a organização linguística deste conceito é universalmente estruturada através de mapeamentos metafóricos do léxico e da gramática do espaço e do movimento. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em reconsiderar tal concepção, com base em pesquisa realizada na língua e na cultura do povo amondawa, habitante da região central do estado de Rondônia, na Amazônia brasileira, falante de uma língua Tupi-Kawahib, da família Tupi-Guarani, Tronco Tupi. Como metodologia de trabalho foram adotadas a pesquisa observacional e a coleta de dados linguísticos em trabalho de campo. Os dados foram submetidos à análise linguística estrutural e conceitual, com vistas a localizar, no nível da construção linguística, possíveis indícios de mapeamentos espaço-temporais. A análise sugere que o mapeamento espaço-tempo, no nível da construção linguística, não é um traço da língua amondawa e que este tipo de mapeamento não é empregado quando os indígenas falam na sua língua materna.
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When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culturemore
by Vera da Silva Sinha and wany sampaio
Publisher: reference-global.com
Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
Publication Name: Language and …
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Embodiment, Personification, Identity: Metaphor and worldview in a Brazilian Tupian culture and languagemore
by wany sampaio and Chris Sinha
In this paper we address ontological metaphorical linguistic expressions in a Brazilian Tupian language and culture, based on conceptual metaphor theory. We focus on metaphors of personification and body part constructions in the Amondawa... more
In this paper we address ontological metaphorical linguistic expressions in a Brazilian Tupian language and culture, based on conceptual metaphor theory. We focus on metaphors of personification and body part constructions in the Amondawa language; analyzing examples from retellings of mythical narrative texts and from complex sentences and compound words. We explore the relations for the speakers of this indigenous language between their experience of physical and mythical domains and their linguistic conceptualizations, as a window to understanding the relations between language, thought, identity and culture. We offer a speculative interpretation of the pervasiveness of personification in this language in terms of an ontology claimed to be common in Amazonian cultures, that in anthropology goes by the name of perspectivism.
Doi: 10.1075/clscc.13.09sam
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Name: Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life.
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