Cultural Keywords in Discourse
Editors
| Roskilde University
| University of New England
Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book contributes to a global turn in cultural keyword studies by exploring keywords from discourse communities in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Melanesia, Mexico and Scandinavia. Providing new case studies, the volume showcases the diversity of ways in which cultural logics form and shape discourse.
The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach is used as a unifying framework for the studies. This approach offers an attractive methodology for doing explorative discourse analysis on emic and culturally-sensitive grounds. Cultural Keywords in Discourse will be of interest to researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, cultural discourse studies, linguistic ethnography and intercultural communication.
The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach is used as a unifying framework for the studies. This approach offers an attractive methodology for doing explorative discourse analysis on emic and culturally-sensitive grounds. Cultural Keywords in Discourse will be of interest to researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, cultural discourse studies, linguistic ethnography and intercultural communication.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 277] 2017. ix, 249 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
-
Preface | p. vii
-
Typographical conventions and symbols | p. ix
-
Chapter 1. How words do things with peopleCarsten Levisen and Sophia Waters | pp. 1–23
-
Chapter 2. Nice as a cultural keyword: The semantics behind Australian discourses of socialitySophia Waters | pp. 25–54
-
Chapter 3. Bogan as a keyword of contemporary Australia: Sociality and national discourse in Australian EnglishRoslyn Rowen | pp. 55–82
-
Chapter 4. Social keywords in postcolonial Melanesian discourse: Kastom ‘traditional culture’ and tumbuna ‘ancestors’Carsten Levisen and Carol Priestley | pp. 83–106
-
Chapter 5. Talking about Livet ‘life’ in Golden Age Danish: Semantics, discourse and cultural modelsMagnus Hamann and Carsten Levisen | pp. 107–129
-
Chapter 6. Visuality, identity and emotion]: Rosa mexicano as a Mexican Spanish keywordKarime Aragón | pp. 131–156
-
Chapter 7. Subúrbio and suburbanos : Two cultural keywords in Brazilian discourseAna Paulla Braga Mattos | pp. 157–182
-
Chapter 8. Cantonese ‘mong4’: A cultural keyword of ‘busy’ Hong KongHelen Hue Lam Leung | pp. 183–210
-
Chapter 9. Kawaii discourse: The semantics of a Japanese cultural keyword and its social elaborationYuko Asano-Cavanagh | pp. 211–234
-
Chapter 10. An invitation to keyword studies: Guidance for future researchCarsten Levisen and Sophia Waters | pp. 235–242
-
Index | pp. 243–249
“Both the chapter authors and (especially) the editors must be congratulated on a solid contribution to cultural linguistics/ethnolinguistics, especially to Anna Wierzbicka's highly original, unique NSM framework. Given the fact that both Levisen and Waters have many years of scholarly career ahead of them, the future of the field looks promising.”
Adam Głaz, UMCS, Lublin, Poland, in LaMiCuS 2 (2018)
Cited by
Cited by 18 other publications
No author info given
2018.
In Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 9],
Arab, Reza
2020.
In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,
► pp. 75 ff.
Bromhead, Helen
2020.
In Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka,
► pp. 115 ff.
Farese, Gian Marco
2020.
In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,
► pp. 59 ff.
Fernández, Susana S.
2020. Una introducción a la teoría de la Metalengua Semántica Natural (NSM) y su aplicación a la pragmática
.
Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics 7:3 ► pp. 397 ff.
Gladkova, Anna & Jesús Romero-Trillo
2021. The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics.
International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Hein, Jan
2020.
In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,
► pp. 35 ff.
Hernández Flores, Nieves
2020. El respeto como valor social. Un estudio de Pragmática sociocultural en encuentros comunicativos de consultas médicas
.
Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics 7:3 ► pp. 371 ff.
Hill, Deborah
2021.
In Minimal Languages in Action,
► pp. 29 ff.
Levisen, Carsten
2019.
In Languages – Cultures – Worldviews,
► pp. 319 ff.
Levisen, Carsten
2020.
In Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka,
► pp. 85 ff.
Levisen, Carsten
2021.
Pæn, flot, dejlig, and lækker
.
International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 ► pp. 14 ff.
Levisen, Carsten
2021. The syntax of something: Evaluative affordances of noget in Danish construction grammar.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics 44:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Peeters, Bert
2020.
In Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka,
► pp. 61 ff.
Peeters, Bert
2020.
In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,
► pp. 1 ff.
Sadow, Lauren
2020.
In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,
► pp. 165 ff.
Sadow, Lauren & Kerry Mullan
2020.
In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,
► pp. 13 ff.
Schneider, Edgar W.
2018. The interface between cultures and corpora: Tracing reflections and manifestations.
ICAME Journal 42:1 ► pp. 97 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 31 march 2022. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics