Hagen Neumüller: Zwei Elefanten – Untersuchung zu den Beziehungen zwischen Sprache und Kultur [PDF]

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Untersuchung zu den Beziehungen zwischen Sprache und Kultur anhand ausgewählter Wortfelder des Kikuyu
EALD East African Languages and Dialects vol. 7

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ISBN 978-3-89645-021-0 SKU: 021 Categories: , Tags: , , , , , ,

Description

1997
303 pp.
1 map, 18 tables, 25 figures

Text language: German

For the first time, this book introduces methods of analysis which have been developed and tested in this study and with which one can compare the whole vocabulary of different languages instead of only semantic parts. The first part consists of a detailed theoretical discussion of the relationship between language, culture, thought, and perception which is followed by a comparison of the German, English, and Kikuyu lexicon. Kikuyu is a Bantu language which is spoken by 5 million people in the highlands of Central Kenya. Most structural variations were found in the field of ‘religion’.

Component analyses and evaluations of ethnographic data provide us with the following explanation: While English (and German) classify systems of religious belief in comparison with Christianity as prototype, Kikuyu uses several such systems which do not fit into European categories. The results from the comparison between established methods and Neumüller’s new method confirm the validity of the latter.

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