The Linguistic Expression of Quality in Tongan: Evidence for Radiality

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1353/anl.2020.0010

G. Bennardo

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Abstract

Abstract:Cultural Model Theory is applied to the domain of quality in Tongan. Adjectives used by speakers to characterize particular nouns in free-listing tasks were compared with the set of words labeled as adjectives in Churchward's dictionary (an approximation to the total set of quality lexemes available to Tongan speakers); the free-listing results showed a greater incidence of adjectives denoting primary (intrinsic) qualities over secondary qualities (involving relations between qualified entity and ego). Hence, the cultural model of radiality, involving a focus on other-than-ego, proposed for other cognitive domains in Tongan likely operates also in the domain of quality.

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汤加语中质量的语言表达:辐射性的证据

摘要:文化模式理论应用于汤安的质量领域。将说话者在自由列举任务中用来描述特定名词的形容词与邱奇沃德词典中标记为形容词的词集(接近汤加语使用者可用的优质词汇集)进行比较;自由列表结果显示，表示主要(内在)品质的形容词比表示次要品质(涉及合格实体和自我之间的关系)的形容词的发生率更高。因此，针对汤加其他认知领域提出的辐射性文化模型，涉及对“非我”的关注，可能也适用于质量领域。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.