Classiques. Auteurs et thématiques
Nick [Nicholas James] Enfield
Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
ansaldo_contact_typology.pdf — Umberto Ansaldo, Contact, typology and the speaker: the essentials of language, Language Sciences, Vol. 26, 2004, pp. 485–494. Etude critique de Linguistic epidemiology.
enfield_anatomy_meaning_1.pdf — N. J. Enfield, The Anatomy of Meaning: Speech, Gesture, and Composite Utterances, Cambridge, CUP, 200? [Pre- print of Ch. 1].
enfield_areal_linguistics.pdf — N. J. Enfield, Areal linguistics and mainland Southeast Asia, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 34, 2005, pp. 181-206.
enfield_body_cognitive_artifact.pdf — N. J. Enfield, The body as a cognitive artifact in kinship representations: hand gesture diagrams by speakers of Lao, Current Anthropology, Volume 46.1, 2005, pp. 51–81.
enfield_diagrams_gesture.pdf — N. J. Enfield, Producing and editing diagrams using co-speech gesture: spatializing non-spatial relations in explanations of kinship in Laos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2003, pp. 7-50.
enfield_linguistic_epidemiology_1.pdf — N. J. Enfield, Linguistic epidemiology: semantics and grammar of language contact in mainland Southeast Asia, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, Chapter 1 “Introduction” (pp. 1–44). [Indexé]
This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged. This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalization, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.
Review in Language by Malcolm Ross: ross_on_enfield.pdf
Review in Language Sciences by Umberto Ansaldo: ansaldo_contact_typology.pdf
Asifa Majid, N. J. Enfield and Miriam van Staden, Parts of the body: cross-linguistic categorization. Special issue of Language Sciences, Volume 28, 2006, Parts 2-3.