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Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, 'pleasant togetherness'), the book provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in ways suggested by central Danish keywords and lexical grids. By means of a sophisticated semantic methodology, the author accounts for the meanings of even highly culture-specific and untranslatable linguistic concepts. The book offers new tools for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. Additionally, it contributes to the emerging discipline of cultural semantics, and to the ongoing debates of linguistic diversity, metalanguage, and the use of linguistic evidence in studies of culture and social cognition.

Language and culture. --- Semantics. --- Danish language --- Psycholinguistics --- Cognitive psychology --- Language and culture --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Languages --- Semantics --- Psychological aspects --- Social aspects --- Discourse analysis --- Cross-cultural studies --- Danois (Langue) --- Langage et culture --- Sémantique --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Ethnolinguistics. --- European Studies. --- Scandinavian Languages.

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The reign of King Cnut the Great (1016–1035) marks a pivotal point in the history of both England and Scandinavia, yet his conquests and his consolidation of power remain under-appreciated and rarely studied. Almost all existing scholarship has been geographically centred on either England or Scandinavia. However, this study, through a series of studies of individual aspects of his rise to power in those regions, seeks to encompass his entire dominion, and cast new light on our understanding of the nature of this political unit and contemporary figures’ conceptions of it. The result is a fresh impression of a number of aspects of Cnut’s rise to power as well as a new interpretation of this ‘empire’.

Danes --- Danois --- History --- Histoire --- Canute --- Great Britain --- Denmark --- Norway --- Grande-Bretagne --- Danemark --- Norvège --- Kings and rulers --- Biography --- Rois et souverains --- Biographies --- Norvège --- Biography. --- Danish people --- Ethnology --- Scandinavians --- History. --- Canute, --- Cnutr --- Cnut --- Knud --- Knut --- Knud, --- Kingdom of Norway --- Kongeriket Noreg --- Kongeriket Norge --- Noreg --- Norga --- Norge --- Norgga gonagasriika --- Norja --- Noruwē --- Norvegia --- Norveška --- Norwegen --- Norwegia --- ノルウェー --- Dacia (Kingdom) --- Dania --- Daniė --- Danie Korolygʺo --- Danii︠a︡ --- Danii︠a︡lʺul Khanlʺi --- Danimārk --- Danimarka --- Danimarka Krallığı --- Daniyah --- Danmark --- Dannemarc --- Danska --- Danyah --- Denemarke --- Denemarken --- Denemearc --- Denemearc þæt Cynerīce --- Denmaakʻŭ --- Dennemarck --- Dinamarca --- Kingdom of Denmark --- Kongeriget Danmark --- Koninkryk van Denemarke --- Ndinamayka --- Reino de Dinamarca --- Даниэ --- Дания --- Даниялъул Ханлъи --- Дание --- Дание Королыгъо --- دنمارك