Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics

Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics provides an introduction into a highly developed, coherent and extensively tested cognitive linguistic approach to lexical semantics, hitherto inaccessible to readers of English. This is an important book for researchers and students in lexical semantics, both in Cognitive Linguistics and beyond. It also strengthens the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise in general by showing that the main tenets of this approach are not an incidental historical development in a particular corner of the world, but rather are arrived at by scholars working in hugely different contexts independently of each other. This book contributes to the intellectual exchange between international academic discourses - an exchange that has often provided major impetus for scientific development, illustrated by the influence of the belated translations of works by Bakhtin, Lotman, Vygotsky, and Luria, among others.