Vera da Silva Sinha
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vera da Silva Sinha is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Title
Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life
Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian
The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.
2026 Chapter 4. Event-based time in Amazonian cultures and languages Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 114–147 | Chapter
Many cultures do not organise life by metric time. Event-based time intervals in three Amazonian communities related to life stages, times of day and night, and seasons are documented and analysed. Metonymic indices for time intervals are common, while metaphoric space-time mapping is largely… read more
2020 Chapter 9. Embodiment, personification, identity: Metaphor and world view in a Brazilian Tupian culture and language Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 181–202 | Chapter
In this paper we address ontological metaphorical linguistic expressions in a Brazilian Tupian language and culture, based on conceptual metaphor theory. We focus on metaphors of personification and body part constructions in the Amondawa language; analyzing examples from retellings of mythical… read more
2020 Introduction. Language, culture and identity: Signs of life Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2016 Indigenous language policies in Brazil: Training indigenous people as teachers and researchers Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 45–59 | Article
In this chapter we outline the historical background of Brazilian language policies that are meant to be supportive of Brazilian indigenous languages and discuss some positive and negative impacts of national programmes developed under these policies. We single out the official programmes relating… read more
2016 When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture Conceptualizations of Time, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.), pp. 151–186 | Article
It is widely assumed that there is a natural, prelinguistic conceptual domain
of time whose linguistic organization is universally structured via metaphoric
mapping from the lexicon and grammar of space and motion. We challenge
this assumption on the basis of our research on the Amondawa (Tupi… read more
2012 1. Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 15–35 | Article
We report an ethnographic and field-experiment-based study of time intervals in Amondawa, a Tupi language and culture of Amazonia. We analyse two Amondawa time interval systems based on natural environmental events (seasons and days), as well as the Amondawa system for categorising lifespan time… read more