Cultural-linguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society

Cultural-linguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society / edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latic, Anna Finzel.

"This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far, unde...

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Corporate Authors: International L.A.U.D.-Symposium, Cultural Linguistics International Conference
Other Authors: Wolf, Hans-Georg, 1963- (Editor), Latic, Denisa (Editor), Finzel, Anna (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Series:Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts, volume 14
Subjects:
Language and culture > Congresses.
Intercultural communication > Congresses.
Cognitive grammar > Congresses.
Cognitive grammar
Intercultural communication
Language and culture
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Section I. Cultural-linguistic explorations into religion, spirituality, and the supernatural
  • Cultural linguistics and religion
  • 1. Cultural linguistics
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Conceptualizations relating to Sufi life
  • 4. Conceptualizations relating to death in Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms
  • 5. Conceptualizations relating to Sacred Sites in Aboriginal English
  • 5.1 Aboriginal English
  • 5.2 Sacredness in Aboriginal English
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Lexical evidence for ancestral communication in Black South African English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and method
  • 3. Herbalist advertisements and representations of ancestors
  • 4. Ancestors in sub-Saharan and South Africa
  • 5. The communicative dimension: Traditional healers as mediators
  • 6. 'Throwing bones' as a ritualized communicative act
  • 7. Conceptualizations of ancestral communication
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Cultural conceptualizations of magical practices related to menstrual blood in a transhistorical and transcontinental perspective
  • Prologue
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Spiritualistic conceptualizations of blood and their geographical, temporal, and cultural distribution
  • 3. Menstrual blood and its conceptualizations
  • 3.1 Conceptualizations of menstrual blood as a charm
  • 3.2 Menstrual blood as a love charm
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Section II. Cultural-linguistic explorations into emotion concepts
  • Conceptualizing SHAME in Old Romanian: A cultural and historical-semantic analysis
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Theoretical framework
  • 3. Shame
  • definition, description, and typology
  • 3.1 Psychological, anthropological, and sociological perspective
  • 3.2 Linguistic perspective
  • 4. Conceptualization and lexicalization of shame in Old Romanian
  • 4.1 Prototypical shame
  • 4.2 Contiguous / hybrid shame
  • 4.3 Positive (honorable) shame
  • shyness/modesty/pudor
  • 5. Final remarks
  • Corpus (16th-18th centuries)
  • References
  • Cultural conceptualizations of xejâlat and kamruyi: Two sharm -related emotion categories in Persian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cultural linguistics
  • 3. Cultural Linguistics and emotion research
  • 4. Data and methodology
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 Xejâlat as an emotion category
  • 5.2 Cultural metaphors
  • 5.3 ru-dar-bâyesti as a shame-related cultural schema
  • 5.4 âberu as a shame-related cultural schema
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Narrative questionnaire (English version)
  • Appendix 2. Reflective questionnaire (English version)

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