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Advances in Cultural Linguistics /

This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition. The materials surveyed in its chapters demonstrate how cultural conceptualisatio...

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Group Author: Sharifian, Farzad
Published: Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Cultural Linguistics,
Subjects:
Social sciences
Comparative linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Sociology
Cognitive psychology
Knowledge - Discourse
Sociological Theory
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4056-6
Summary: This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition. The materials surveyed in its chapters demonstrate how cultural conceptualisations encoded in language relate to all aspects of human life - from emotion and embodiment to kinship, religion, marriage and politics, even in the understanding of life and death. Cultural Linguistics draws on cognitive science, complexity science and distributed cognition, among other disciplines,
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XII,745pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9789811040566
Index Number: HM24
CLC: H0-05
Contents: Chapter 1. Cultural Linguistics: The state of the art (Farzad Sharifian) -- Chapter 2. Cultural Conceptualisations in Humorous Discourse in English and Serbian (Diana Prodanovi -Stanki ) -- Chapter 3. Cultural Conceptualizations of Death in Taiwanese Buddhist and Christian Eulogistic idioms (Wei-lun Lu) -- Chapter 4. Life as Opera: A cultural metaphor in Chinese (Ning Yu) -- Chapter 5. Cultural Conceptualisations of Collective Self-Representation among Chinese Immigrants (Yanying Lu) -- Chapter 6. Cultural Conceptualizations of irony in Greek (Angeliki Athanasiadou) -- Chapter 7. The Interfa

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