Cultural linguistics : cultural conceptualisations and language

Cultural linguistics : cultural conceptualisations and language / Farzad Sharifian.

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the the...

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Main Author: Sharifian, Farzad (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Language and culture.
Intercultural communication.
Cognitive grammar.
Anthropological linguistics.
anthropological linguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Anthropological linguistics
Cognitive grammar
Intercultural communication
Language and culture
Languages.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cultural Linguistics
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Note on transliteration conventions of Persian transcripts
  • Chapter 1. Cultural Linguistics: An overview
  • 1.1 Cultural Linguistics
  • 1.2 The theoretical framework of Cultural Linguistics
  • 1.3 The analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics
  • 1.4 An assessment of Cultural Linguistics
  • Chapter 2. Cultural conceptualisations and language: The analytical framework
  • 2.1 Cultural schemas
  • 2.2 Cultural categories2.3 Cultural metaphors
  • 2.3.1 Cultural metaphors relating to the Land
  • 2.3.2 Cultural metaphors relating to Medicine
  • 2.3.3 Creative cultural metaphors
  • 2.3.4 The cognitive processing continuum of cultural metaphors
  • 2.4 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 3. Embodied cultural metaphors
  • 3.1 Embodiment and embodied cognition
  • 3.2 Conceptualisations relating to del in contemporary Persian
  • 3.3 Del in psychological, intellectual, and person-bound concepts
  • 3.3.1 del as the seat of emotions, feelings, and desires
  • 3.3.2 del as the centre of thoughts and memories3.3.3 del as the centre of personality traits, character, and mood
  • 3.3.4 Summary
  • 3.4 Cultural conceptualisations behind the notion of del
  • 3.5 Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) and temperature terms in Persian
  • 3.6 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 4. Research methods in Cultural Linguistics
  • 4.1 Conceptual-associative analysis
  • 4.2 Conceptual analysis of story recounts
  • 4.3 (Meta)discourse analysis
  • 4.4 Corpus-based analysis
  • 4.5 Ethnographic-conceptual text/visual analysis
  • 4.6 Diachronic/synchronic conceptual analysis4.7 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 5. Cultural Linguistics and pragmatics
  • 5.1 Pragmemes and practs
  • 5.2 Pragmatic schemas
  • 5.3 Pragmatic schemas, speech acts/events, pragmemes, and practs
  • 5.3.1 shekasteh-nafsi
  • 5.3.2 sharmandegi
  • 5.3.3 ru-dar-bÃØyesti
  • 5.3.4 tÃØâ#x80;#x99;ÃØrof
  • 5.4 Pragmatic schemas and cultural cognition
  • 5.5 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 6. Cultural Linguistics and emotion research
  • 6.1 Cultural conceptualisations relating to Persian qam
  • 6.2 Cultural conceptualisations relating to pride in British English and its counterparts in Polish6.3 The word Rain in Aboriginal English
  • 6.4 The word Sorry in Aboriginal English
  • 6.5 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 7. Cultural Linguistics and religion
  • 7.1 Conceptualisations relating to Sufi life
  • 7.2 Conceptualisations relating to death in Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms
  • 7.3 Conceptualisations relating to Sacred Sites in Aboriginal English
  • 7.4 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 8. Cultural Linguistics and political discourse

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