Table of contents
List of figures
IX
About the author
XI
Acknowledgements
XIII
Preface
XV
Note on transliteration conventions of Persian transcripts
XVII
Chapter 1.Cultural Linguistics: An overview
1
1.1Cultural Linguistics
2
1.2The theoretical framework of Cultural Linguistics
3
1.3The analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics
7
1.4An assessment of Cultural Linguistics
9
Chapter 2.Cultural conceptualisations and language: The analytical framework
11
2.1Cultural schemas
11
2.2Cultural categories
14
2.3Cultural metaphors
17
2.3.1Cultural metaphors relating to the Land
19
2.3.2Cultural metaphors relating to Medicine
20
2.3.3Creative cultural metaphors
21
2.3.4The cognitive processing continuum of cultural metaphors
21
2.4Concluding remarks
23
Chapter 3.Embodied cultural metaphors
25
3.1Embodiment and embodied cognition
25
3.2Conceptualisations relating to del in contemporary Persian
26
3.3
Del in psychological, intellectual, and person-bound concepts
28
3.3.1
del as the seat of emotions, feelings, and desires
28
3.3.2
del as the centre of thoughts and memories
32
3.3.3
del as the centre of personality traits, character, and mood
33
3.3.4Summary
35
3.4Cultural conceptualisations behind the notion of del
36
3.5Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) and temperature terms in Persian
38
3.6Concluding remarks
39
Chapter 4.Research methods in Cultural Linguistics
41
4.1Conceptual-associative analysis
42
4.2Conceptual analysis of story recounts
43
4.3(Meta)discourse analysis
45
4.4Corpus-based analysis
47
4.5Ethnographic-conceptual text/visual analysis
47
4.6Diachronic/synchronic conceptual analysis
49
4.7Concluding remarks
50
Chapter 5.Cultural Linguistics and pragmatics
51
5.1Pragmemes and practs
51
5.2Pragmatic schemas
52
5.3Pragmatic schemas, speech acts/events, pragmemes, and practs
54
5.3.1
shekasteh-nafsi
54
5.3.2
sharmandegi
56
5.3.3
ru-dar-bȃyesti
57
5.3.4
tȃ’ȃrof
57
5.4Pragmatic schemas and cultural cognition
60
5.5Concluding remarks
62
Chapter 6.Cultural Linguistics and emotion research
63
6.1Cultural conceptualisations relating to Persian qam
64
6.2Cultural conceptualisations relating to pride in British English and its counterparts in Polish
67
6.3The word Rain in Aboriginal English
67
6.4The word Sorry in Aboriginal English
69
6.5Concluding remarks
71
Chapter 7.Cultural Linguistics and religion
73
7.1Conceptualisations relating to Sufi life
73
7.2Conceptualisations relating to death in Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms
76
7.3Conceptualisations relating to Sacred Sites in Aboriginal English
76
7.4Concluding remarks
78
Chapter 8.Cultural Linguistics and political discourse
79
8.1Political discourse and cultural conceptualisations
79
8.2Conceptualisations relating to democracy in political discourse in Ghana
79
8.3The cultural metaphor the nation as a body
80
8.4Conceptualisations relating to austerity in political discourse
81
8.5Cultural conceptualisations in Military English
82
8.6Concluding remarks
83
Chapter 9.Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes
85
9.1Processes of localisation
85
9.2Cultural schemas in World Englishes
86
9.3Cultural categories in World Englishes
88
9.4Cultural metaphors in World Englishes
89
9.5Recent studies of World Englishes from a Cultural Linguistics perspective
90
9.6Concluding remarks
93
Chapter 10.Cultural Linguistics and intercultural communication
95
10.1Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intercultural (mis)communication
96
10.2Concluding remarks
100
Chapter 11.Cultural Linguistics and Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL)
101
11.1Globalisation – and what it means for the notion of “native speaker”
101
11.2“Competence” in foreign language education
103
11.3Meta-cultural competence and learning EIL
106
11.4Developing meta-cultural competence through new technology
108
11.5Concluding remarks
108
Chapter 12.Cultural Linguistics and linguistic relativity
111
12.1The three pioneers of linguistic relativity
112
12.1.1Franz Boas
112
12.1.2Edward Sapir
113
12.1.3Benjamin Lee Whorf
115
12.2Cultural Linguistics and linguistic relativity
118
12.3Linguistic relativity and conceptual distribution
120
12.4Concluding remarks
121
Chapter 13.Recent developments and research initiatives on language and culture
123
13.1
The Routledge handbook of language and culture
123
13.2
Advances in Cultural Linguistics
138
13.3Other recent research
148
13.4Concluding remarks
149
References
151
Index
165
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