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Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and processes play in conventional Latin expression across levels of lexical, syntactic, and textual meaning construction. It shows not only the extent to which universal aspects of human embodiment are reflected in Latin's semantics, but also the ways in which Latin speakers capitalize on embodied understanding to express imaginative and culture-specific forms of meaning. In this way, the volume makes good on the potential of the embodiment hypothesis to enrich our understanding of meaning making in the Latin language, from the level of word sense to that of literary thematics. It should interest anyone concerned with how people, including in historical societies, create meaning through language.

Latin language --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Semantics. --- Lexicography. --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Semantics --- Lexicography --- Latin language - Semantics --- Latin language - Lexicography --- Pragmatics --- Latin (Langue) --- Sémantique --- Lexicographie --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Classical Latin language

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The culmination of a project aimed at showcasing, in a systematic way, the potential of applying anthropological perspectives to classical studies, this volume highlights the fundamental contribution this approach has to make to our understanding of ancient Roman culture. Through the close study of themes such as myth, polytheism, sacrifice, magic, space, kinship, the gift, friendship, economics, animals, plants, riddles, metaphors, and images in Roman society (often in comparison with Greece) - where the texts of ancient culture are allowed to speak in their own terms and where the experience of the natives (rather than the horizon of the observer) is privileged - a rich panorama emerges of the worldview, beliefs, and deep structures that shaped and guided this culture.

History of civilization --- Roman history --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- History as a science --- Ethnology --- Rome --- Civilization --- Anthropologie. --- Civilization. --- Ethnology. --- Kultur. --- Rome (Empire). --- Römisches Reich. --- Ethnology - Rome --- Rome - Civilization --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings

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Hermes (Greek deity) in literature. --- Literature and anthropology --- Classical literature --- History and criticism. --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- Hermes --- In literature. --- Argeiphontes --- Гермес --- Хермес --- Khermes --- Ερμής --- Ermēs --- Hermeso --- Heirméas --- 헤르메스 --- Herŭmesŭ --- הרמס --- Germes --- Herme --- Hermejs --- Hermis --- Hermész --- ヘルメース --- Hermesi --- 赫耳墨斯 --- He'ermosi --- Mercury

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This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches to language within the field of Classics, its contributors adopt, in particular, a 'constructional' approach that treats morphosyntactic constructions as meaningful in and of themselves. Thus, they are able to address the role of human cognitive embodiment in determining the meanings of linguistic phenomena as diverse as verbal affixes, discourse particles, prepositional phrases, lexical items, and tense semantics in both Greek and Latin.

Greek language --- Grammar.

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This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches to language within the field of Classics, its contributors adopt, in particular, a 'constructional' approach that treats morphosyntactic constructions as meaningful in and of themselves. Thus, they are able to address the role of human cognitive embodiment in determining the meanings of linguistic phenomena as diverse as verbal affixes, discourse particles, prepositional phrases, lexical items, and tense semantics in both Greek and Latin.

E-books --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Comparative linguistics --- Classical Latin language --- Classical Greek language --- Greek. --- Latin. --- classical cognitive linguistics. --- embodied meaning. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.