Carsten Levisen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 129186 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carsten Levisen |
| NOMBRES | Carsten |
| APELLIDO | Levisen |
| FIRMA | LEVISEN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7497-2406 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The semantics of ecological collapse
This paper explores various linguacultural responses to ecological collapse — in an era of global environmental upheaval and distress. With a focus on semantics, the key question of the paper revolves around how words and constructions are created and altered by speakers in order to account for what they experience, and how they collectively make sense of the collapse they see. The paper draws inspiration from research in the Blue Humanities ( Me…
Terminologies in crisis
This paper addresses the question of metalinguistic terminology from a cross-linguistic and cross-conceptual perspective. In the first part of the paper, the current crisis in terminology is analysed, with a focus on unthinking the dominant keywords and concepts of global Anglophone linguistics such as “language”, ”creole”, ”dialect”, and ”variety”. Theorizing the problems of Anglocentrism and Eurocolonial dominance on metalinguistic practices, t…
Contrastive Metapragmatics and the Shifting Semantics of “Sarcasm” in English and Danish
Despite valuable studies into the uses/functions of sarcasm, no previous investigation has focused on the semantics of “sarcasm” as an emic metapragmatic category. We provide a contrastive lexical study of English and Danish using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage ( NSM ) approach. We find that the English noun sarcasm has been undergoing semantic innovation and is now polysemous, as is its corresponding adjective. Roughly, older sarcasm 1 expres…
The Beginning of Quantitative Sociolinguistics in the Nineteenth Century
In 1898, a young Dane, Anker Jensen (1878-1937), published a pioneering study in which he investigated the linguistic situation in Aaby, then a village and parish located just west of Aarhus (the second-largest city of Denmark, in Jutland), and today an integrated part of the city. Anker Jensen's article can safely be considered the first sociolinguistic study in a Danish context, and it may in fact be the world's first quantitative sociolinguist…
Pæn, flot, dejlig , and lækker
This paper examines the Danish language of aesthetics from the perspective of four untranslatable adjectives: pæn, flot, dejlig , and lækker . These words are frequent and salient in everyday discourses, and as such they shed light on Danish “folk” conceptions. From the perspective of Lexical Anthropology and NSM Semantics, each of the words are explored and explicated in order to shed light on the ways in which Danish discourse organize positive…
The syntax of something
This paper explores ‘the evaluative noget construction’ in Danish. The construction consists of noget ‘something’ juxtaposed by a noun in an evaluative frame such as e.g. Det er noget pjat , ‘It’s nonsense’. With a starting point in cross-linguistic studies on something , the paper moves on to explore core members of this evaluative class in Danish, providing a detailed semantic analysis of the construction’s core configurations. The affordance o…
On languages on islands
Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars of language with distinct and robust sets of singular and combined case studies for examining the role of islandness in any appreciation of language. Whether distinct and particular sociolinguistic and typological…
Postcolonial Prepositions
Linguistics as a biased discipline
Biases we live by
Dark, but Danish
This paper explores sort humor ‘black humor’, a key concept in Danish conversational humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes other categories such as tør ‘dry’, syg ‘sick’, and fed ‘fat’. Taking an ethnopragmatic perspective on humor discourse, it is argued that such constructs function as a local catalogue for socially recognized laughing practices. The aim of the paper is to provide a semanti…
The social and sonic semantics of reggae
Introduction
Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe
Scandinavian semantics and the human body
Two kinds of pink
On Pigs and People
There are footprints of pigs all over the Danish language. Pig-based verbs, nouns and adjectives abound, and the pragmatics of Danish, including its repertoire of abusives, is heavily reliant on porcine phraseology. Despite the highly urbanized nature of the contemporary Danish speech community, semantic structures from Denmark's peasant-farmer past appear to have survived and taken on a new significance in today's society. Unlike everyday Englis…
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
This book is the first to undertake a semantic analysis of Danish word meanings and ethnopragmatic analysis of Danish speech practices, values and attitudes, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework (Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002a; Wierzbicka 1996; Peeters 2006; Goddard 2008c). It is also the first linguistic work to systematically investigate the relationship between everyday Danish language and Danish cultural values, showing…
The Reign of Truth and Faith
Biases we live by
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
This book is the first to undertake a semantic analysis of Danish word meanings and ethnopragmatic analysis of Danish speech practices, values and attitudes, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework (Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002a; Wierzbicka 1996; Peeters 2006; Goddard 2008c). It is also the first linguistic work to systematically investigate the relationship between everyday Danish language and Danish cultural values, showing…
Dark, but Danish
This paper explores sort humor ‘black humor’, a key concept in Danish conversational humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes other categories such as tør ‘dry’, syg ‘sick’, and fed ‘fat’. Taking an ethnopragmatic perspective on humor discourse, it is argued that such constructs function as a local catalogue for socially recognized laughing practices. The aim of the paper is to provide a semanti…
Introduction
The social and sonic semantics of reggae
Two kinds of pink
Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe
Scandinavian semantics and the human body
On Pigs and People
There are footprints of pigs all over the Danish language. Pig-based verbs, nouns and adjectives abound, and the pragmatics of Danish, including its repertoire of abusives, is heavily reliant on porcine phraseology. Despite the highly urbanized nature of the contemporary Danish speech community, semantic structures from Denmark's peasant-farmer past appear to have survived and taken on a new significance in today's society. Unlike everyday Englis…
The Beginning of Quantitative Sociolinguistics in the Nineteenth Century
In 1898, a young Dane, Anker Jensen (1878-1937), published a pioneering study in which he investigated the linguistic situation in Aaby, then a village and parish located just west of Aarhus (the second-largest city of Denmark, in Jutland), and today an integrated part of the city. Anker Jensen's article can safely be considered the first sociolinguistic study in a Danish context, and it may in fact be the world's first quantitative sociolinguist…
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
This book is the first to undertake a semantic analysis of Danish word meanings and ethnopragmatic analysis of Danish speech practices, values and attitudes, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework (Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002a; Wierzbicka 1996; Peeters 2006; Goddard 2008c). It is also the first linguistic work to systematically investigate the relationship between everyday Danish language and Danish cultural values, showing…
The Reign of Truth and Faith
On Pigs and People
There are footprints of pigs all over the Danish language. Pig-based verbs, nouns and adjectives abound, and the pragmatics of Danish, including its repertoire of abusives, is heavily reliant on porcine phraseology. Despite the highly urbanized nature of the contemporary Danish speech community, semantic structures from Denmark's peasant-farmer past appear to have survived and taken on a new significance in today's society. Unlike everyday Englis…
Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe
Scandinavian semantics and the human body
Two kinds of pink
The social and sonic semantics of reggae
Introduction
Dark, but Danish
This paper explores sort humor ‘black humor’, a key concept in Danish conversational humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes other categories such as tør ‘dry’, syg ‘sick’, and fed ‘fat’. Taking an ethnopragmatic perspective on humor discourse, it is argued that such constructs function as a local catalogue for socially recognized laughing practices. The aim of the paper is to provide a semanti…
Linguistics as a biased discipline
Biases we live by
On languages on islands
Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars of language with distinct and robust sets of singular and combined case studies for examining the role of islandness in any appreciation of language. Whether distinct and particular sociolinguistic and typological…
Postcolonial Prepositions
Pæn, flot, dejlig , and lækker
This paper examines the Danish language of aesthetics from the perspective of four untranslatable adjectives: pæn, flot, dejlig , and lækker . These words are frequent and salient in everyday discourses, and as such they shed light on Danish “folk” conceptions. From the perspective of Lexical Anthropology and NSM Semantics, each of the words are explored and explicated in order to shed light on the ways in which Danish discourse organize positive…
The syntax of something
This paper explores ‘the evaluative noget construction’ in Danish. The construction consists of noget ‘something’ juxtaposed by a noun in an evaluative frame such as e.g. Det er noget pjat , ‘It’s nonsense’. With a starting point in cross-linguistic studies on something , the paper moves on to explore core members of this evaluative class in Danish, providing a detailed semantic analysis of the construction’s core configurations. The affordance o…
The Beginning of Quantitative Sociolinguistics in the Nineteenth Century
In 1898, a young Dane, Anker Jensen (1878-1937), published a pioneering study in which he investigated the linguistic situation in Aaby, then a village and parish located just west of Aarhus (the second-largest city of Denmark, in Jutland), and today an integrated part of the city. Anker Jensen's article can safely be considered the first sociolinguistic study in a Danish context, and it may in fact be the world's first quantitative sociolinguist…
Contrastive Metapragmatics and the Shifting Semantics of “Sarcasm” in English and Danish
Despite valuable studies into the uses/functions of sarcasm, no previous investigation has focused on the semantics of “sarcasm” as an emic metapragmatic category. We provide a contrastive lexical study of English and Danish using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage ( NSM ) approach. We find that the English noun sarcasm has been undergoing semantic innovation and is now polysemous, as is its corresponding adjective. Roughly, older sarcasm 1 expres…
The semantics of ecological collapse
This paper explores various linguacultural responses to ecological collapse — in an era of global environmental upheaval and distress. With a focus on semantics, the key question of the paper revolves around how words and constructions are created and altered by speakers in order to account for what they experience, and how they collectively make sense of the collapse they see. The paper draws inspiration from research in the Blue Humanities ( Me…
Terminologies in crisis
This paper addresses the question of metalinguistic terminology from a cross-linguistic and cross-conceptual perspective. In the first part of the paper, the current crisis in terminology is analysed, with a focus on unthinking the dominant keywords and concepts of global Anglophone linguistics such as “language”, ”creole”, ”dialect”, and ”variety”. Theorizing the problems of Anglocentrism and Eurocolonial dominance on metalinguistic practices, t…
Linguistics (15 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Danish (6 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 obras) · linguistics and terminology studies (4 obras)