A Semantic Analysis of Snow-related Words in Danish and Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic)
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https://doi.org/10.7146/sss.v13i1.135079Keywords:
weather terms, snow-related terms, environmental semantics, Kalaallisut, West Greenlandic, Danish, English, natural semantic metalanguage (NSM)Abstract
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.
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