A Semantic Analysis of Snow-related Words in Danish and Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic)

This paper emerges from the vexed question whether the allegedly many “Eskimo” terms for snow document a linkage between language, culture, and cognition. Using the semantic explication technique of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) approach, the emic logics embedded in the Kalaallisut snow-re...

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Published in:Scandinavian Studies in Language
Main Author: Maskova, Stephanie
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
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Published: Royal Danish Library 2022
Subjects:
eskimo*
greenlandic
kalaallisut
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10072/432200
https://doi.org/10.7146/sss.v13i1.135079
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spelling ftgriffithuniv:oai:research-repository.griffith.edu.au:10072/432200 2024-09-15T18:05:07+00:00 A Semantic Analysis of Snow-related Words in Danish and Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) Maskova, Stephanie 2022 https://hdl.handle.net/10072/432200 https://doi.org/10.7146/sss.v13i1.135079 unknown Royal Danish Library Scandinavian Studies in Language Maskova, S, Semantic Analysis of Snow-related Words in Danish and Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), Scandinavian Studies in Language, 13 (1), pp. 225-248 https://hdl.handle.net/10072/432200 1904-7843 doi:10.7146/sss.v13i1.135079 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2022 Stephanie Maskova. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. open access Journal article 2022 ftgriffithuniv https://doi.org/10.7146/sss.v13i1.135079 2024-08-20T14:15:35Z This paper emerges from the vexed question whether the allegedly many “Eskimo” terms for snow document a linkage between language, culture, and cognition. Using the semantic explication technique of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) approach, the emic logics embedded in the Kalaallisut snow-related words aputit and nittaappoq and the Danish snow-related words sne and det sner are unfolded. Through a comparison of the findings, the paper discusses how the physical world is conceptualized in both culture-specific and transcultural ways. The explications are based on evidence from semantic consultations and text examples. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* greenlandic kalaallisut Griffith University: Griffith Research Online Scandinavian Studies in Language 13 1 225 248
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