Table of contents
Acknowledgements
VII
Section I.Cultural-linguistic explorations into religion, spirituality, and the
supernatural
Cultural linguistics and religion
9
Lexical evidence for ancestral communication in Black South African
English
23
Cultural conceptualizations of magical practices related to menstrual
blood in a transhistorical and transcontinental perspective
41
Section II.Cultural-linguistic explorations into emotion concepts
Conceptualizing shame in Old Romanian: A cultural and historical-semantic analysis
79
Cultural conceptualizations of xejâlat
and kamruyi:
Two sharm-related emotion categories in
Persian
105
Cross-cultural models of mental hurt emotion clusters
123
Section III.Cultural-linguistic explorations into social identities and cultural
concepts
Correspondences between Hungarian women’s marital names and the
traditional family schema
151
Innate or acquired? homosexuality and cultural models of
gender in Indian and Nigerian English
185
Culture-specific elaborations in cross-linguistic studies of
metaphors: Comparing life is a journey in Chinese and British
English
213
Essentials and valuables: Cultural conceptualizations of Cantonese rice idioms
237
Conceptualizations index
267
Names index
271
Subject index
275
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