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The Category of «Humanity» : Language as a Reflection of the Opposition between the Natural Sphere and the Human Sphere
Vercher García, Enrique Javier
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Linguistics
Cognitive linguistics
Linguistic anthropology
Linguoculturology
Natural languages
Linguistic categories
Human/non-human
Lingüística
5704 Teoría Lingüística
5705.02 Etnolingüistica
6308.02 Sociolingüística
ABSTRACT: The article analyses the way in which human languages classify reality into two large categories: the natural sphere and the human sphere. Thus, a given language will use the resources of its different linguistic levels (phonetic-phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical) to configure the references of reality and classify them based on what the speaker considers as belonging to the sphere of human society or the sphere of nature, outwith the human community. The same object, animal, phenomenon, or event may be treated (and evaluated) differently depending on whether the speakers of a given language consider it as belonging to the human sphere or the natural sphere.
Depto. de Filología Alemana y Filología Eslava
Fac. de Filología
TRUE
pub
2025-01-07T02:16:15Z
2025-01-07T02:16:15Z
2019
journal article
VoR
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113184
2096-031X
10.1515/lass-2019-050202
2751-7160
eng
Vercher García, Enrique J. «The Category of “Humanity” : Language as a Reflection of the Opposition between the Natural Sphere and the Human Sphere». Language and Semiotic Studies = 语言与符号学研究, vol. 5, n.º 2, 2019, pp. 37-52, https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2019-050202.
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application/pdf
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