TY - BOOK ID - 77919982 TI - Infinity in language : conceptualization of the experience of the sublime AU - Holmqvist, Kenneth AU - Puciennik, Jarosaw. PY - 2008 SN - 1282035827 9786612035821 1443803901 9781443803908 1847189555 9781282035829 661203582X PB - Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Semantics. KW - Semantics KW - Rhetoric. KW - Language and languages KW - Speaking KW - Authorship KW - Expression KW - Literary style KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Philosophy. KW - Rhetoric UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77919982 AB - The book Infinity in Language is a research monograph on the problem of the sublime in language. The authors use methods from cognitive semantics and poetics in order to thoroughly describe how the sublime is used in language. It is a unique attempt to account for one of the most fascinating problems of the human mind: the concept of infinity, and how the experience of infinity and enthusiasm is expressed in language. The book includes new findings in cognitive semantics relating to rhetoric... ER -