Cultural Linguistics : Cultural Conceptualisations and Language.

Intro -- Cultural Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Note on transliteration conventions of Persian transcripts -- Chapter 1. Cultural Linguistics: An overview -- 1.1 Cultural Linguistics -- 1.2 The theoretical framework of Cultural Linguistics -- 1.3 The analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics -- 1.4 An assessment of Cultural Linguistics -- Chapter 2. Cultural conceptualisations and language: The analytical framework -- 2.1 Cultural schemas -- 2.2 Cultural categories -- 2.3 Cultural metaphors -- 2.3.1 Cultural metaphors relating to the Land -- 2.3.2 Cultural metaphors relating to Medicine -- 2.3.3 Creative cultural metaphors -- 2.3.4 The cognitive processing continuum of cultural metaphors -- 2.4 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3. Embodied cultural metaphors -- 3.1 Embodiment and embodied cognition -- 3.2 Conceptualisations relating to del in contemporary Persian -- 3.3 Del in psychological, intellectual, and person-bound concepts -- 3.3.1 del as the seat of emotions, feelings, and desires -- 3.3.2 del as the centre of thoughts and memories -- 3.3.3 del as the centre of personality traits, character, and mood -- 3.3.4 Summary -- 3.4 Cultural conceptualisations behind the notion of del -- 3.5 Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) and temperature terms in Persian -- 3.6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 4. Research methods in Cultural Linguistics -- 4.1 Conceptual-associative analysis -- 4.2 Conceptual analysis of story recounts -- 4.3 (Meta)discourse analysis -- 4.4 Corpus-based analysis -- 4.5 Ethnographic-conceptual text/visual analysis -- 4.6 Diachronic/synchronic conceptual analysis -- 4.7 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 5. Cultural Linguistics and pragmatics -- 5.1 Pragmemes and practs -- 5.2 Pragmatic schemas.

5.3 Pragmatic schemas, speech acts/events, pragmemes, and practs -- 5.3.1 shekasteh-nafsi -- 5.3.2 sharmandegi -- 5.3.3 ru-dar-bâyesti -- 5.3.4 tâ'ârof -- 5.4 Pragmatic schemas and cultural cognition -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 6. Cultural Linguistics and emotion research -- 6.1 Cultural conceptualisations relating to Persian qam -- 6.2 Cultural conceptualisations relating to pride in British English and its counterparts in Polish -- 6.3 The word Rain in Aboriginal English -- 6.4 The word Sorry in Aboriginal English -- 6.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 7. Cultural Linguistics and religion -- 7.1 Conceptualisations relating to Sufi life -- 7.2 Conceptualisations relating to death in Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms -- 7.3 Conceptualisations relating to Sacred Sites in Aboriginal English -- 7.4 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 8. Cultural Linguistics and political discourse -- 8.1 Political discourse and cultural conceptualisations -- 8.2 Conceptualisations relating to democracy in political discourse in Ghana -- 8.3 The cultural metaphor the nation as a body -- 8.4 Conceptualisations relating to austerity in political discourse -- 8.5 Cultural conceptualisations in Military English -- 8.6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 9. Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes -- 9.1 Processes of localisation -- 9.2 Cultural schemas in World Englishes -- 9.3 Cultural categories in World Englishes -- 9.4 Cultural metaphors in World Englishes -- 9.5 Recent studies of World Englishes from a Cultural Linguistics perspective -- 9.6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 10. Cultural Linguistics and intercultural communication: Cultural Linguistics and intercultural communication -- 10.1 Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intercultural (mis)communication -- 10.2 Concluding remarks.

Chapter 11. Cultural Linguistics and Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL): Cultural Linguistics and Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) -- 11.1 Globalisation - and what it means for the notion of "native speaker" -- 11.2 "Competence" in foreign language education -- 11.3 Meta-cultural competence and learning EIL -- 11.4 Developing meta-cultural competence through new technology -- 11.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 12. Cultural Linguistics and linguistic relativity -- 12.1 The three pioneers of linguistic relativity -- 12.1.1 Franz Boas -- 12.1.2 Edward Sapir -- 12.1.3 Benjamin Lee Whorf -- 12.2 Cultural Linguistics and linguistic relativity -- 12.3 Linguistic relativity and conceptual distribution -- 12.4 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 13. Recent developments and research initiatives on language and culture -- 13.1 The Routledge handbook of language and culture -- 13.2 Advances in Cultural Linguistics -- 13.3 Other recent research -- 13.4 Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations.

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