Language, Culture and Identity - Signs of Life.

Intro -- Language, Culture, and Identity - Signs of Life -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Reference -- Introduction: Language, culture and identity: Signs of life -- Background to this volume -- Language, culture and identity: Signs of Life -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Philosophy and philosophical practice: Eurocentrism as an epistemology of ignorance -- Introduction -- The geography of epistemology -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2. Translation and transnationality in the Himalaya: Writing Gorkha language and culture -- Introduction -- Colonial and national Darjeeling -- Postcoloniality and translation -- Short story and subalternity -- Marginality and linguistic minority -- Awakening historical memory: Diaspora and danger -- References -- 3. North-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism? -- Introduction: Why document endangered languages? -- ELDR: Evolving paradigms -- North-South relations: Unequal exchange between academics and communities -- North-South relations: Unequal exchange inside the academe -- Case study 1: Does "data collection" count as research? -- Case study 2: Are field sites "open territory"? -- Case study 3: To what extent, and when, should data be in the public domain? -- General discussion -- Concluding reflections on theory, methodology, goals and values -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher: A personal account -- Introduction -- Linguistic classification -- Societal and political organisation -- Onomastic designation -- Indigenous schooling -- Diet -- Reflection on my experience -- Culture and identity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesis -- Introduction -- The limits of grammar.

A descriptive challenge: The Ungarinyin definite subject marker -- Conventional meaning of the Ungarinyin definite subject -- Definite subject clustering in discourse -- Grammar as a social instructive tool and a semiotic hybrid -- Grammar is multimodal, in a Peircian sense -- Grammatical signs as instruction -- The linguistic sign as instructive modes -- Representation, cohesion, stance -- The definition of the definite subject reformulated in semiotic terms -- Cohesion -- Definite subject markers with a dominant indexical mode: cohesion-stance transgression -- Discussion -- Representation, cohesion and stance and the analytical paradox of cognitive-functional grammar -- The hypothesis -- Conclusion: Grammatical analysis and the linguistic sign 'in flux' -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6. A framing-based account of critical cultural awareness -- Introduction -- Frame semantics and conceptual blending theory -- Experiment -- Participants -- Materials -- Tasks and procedure -- Analysis and results -- Think-Aloud protocols -- Picture choices -- Responses to verbal probing tasks -- Responses to verbal probing task 1 -- Responses to verbal probing task 2 -- Responses to verbal probing task 3 -- Responses to verbal probing task 4 -- Responses to verbal probing task 5 -- Discussion -- Automatic framing and framing absolutivity -- Deframing and framing flexibility -- Reframing and framing plurality -- Blending and framing relativity -- A framing-based model for CCA development -- Limitations of the study -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7. Cultural "Signs of life" in politics: A case study of eulogistic idioms for Taiwanese politicians -- Introduction -- Applications of Cognitive Linguistics in the language of politics -- Previous studies on LIFE and DEATH in Cognitive Linguistics -- Findings.

Metaphorical idioms with COUNTRY or PEOPLE in scope -- Metaphorical idioms with COUNTRY or PEOPLE in profile -- Metaphorical idioms with COUNTRY or PEOPLE in the base -- Metaphorical idioms with allusions -- TEXTILE metaphor in Chinese idioms of politics -- Cultural signs of life in Taiwanese political eulogies -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Databases consulted -- 8. Construing the self in discourse: A socio-cognitive approach -- Introduction -- Towards a socio-cognitive discourse approach -- Methodology -- Analysis -- The physical object self -- The locational self -- The embodied self -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Embodiment, personification, identity: Metaphor and world view in a Brazilian Tupian culture and language -- Introduction -- The language-thought-culture-identity nexus -- Metaphor, embodiment and personification -- Personification in the everyday language of the Amondawa people -- Personification of moon, stars and night in the retelling of the myth of the moon -- The personification of the house through body part metaphor -- Personification in nominal constructions -- Figurative metaphors based on embodiment/personification -- Descriptive nominalization based on similitude/association -- Concluding reflections -- References -- Dictionaries -- 10. 'Mid hefigum byrþenum': A study of the burden metaphor in Old English -- Introduction -- Data and methodology -- Metaphor, embodiment and culture -- Weight in Old English -- Conclusion -- References -- 11. Cultural and cognitive aspects of narrative: A cross-linguistic study -- Introduction -- Prior research on narrative theory and structure -- An integrated approach to narrative analysis -- The empirical study -- Stimulus material -- Episodes -- Participants and procedure -- Results and discussion -- Cognitive basis and linguistic coding.

Cultural dimension and linguistic coding -- Conclusion -- References -- 12. How can I persuade you without making self-assertions? A cognitive rhetorical analysis of the use of fictive questions in an early Daoist text -- Introduction -- Basics of fictive questions -- Data and methodology -- Analysis -- Fictive questions in the Here-and-Now Space -- Fictive questions in the Current Discourse Space -- Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13. "Keeping up with the times": 'Nüxing, funü' and the affective value of the formulated text -- Introduction -- Categories of women and the affective value of formulated texts -- Formulation: Doing things with words in Chinese politics -- Nüxing and Funü: Women, nation and the affective value of text -- Reading formulations in 'People's Daily': 'Funü, Nüxing' and "Keeping up with the Times" -- Formulating "Keeping up with the Times": The times as affective object -- Women and the spirit of the times -- Women and education/ '"Jiaoyu"' -- 'The problem of' funü's 'education', nüxing's 'education and' nüxing jiaoyu -- Nüxing jiaoyu 'in the market economy' -- Nüxing jiaoyu 'as a historical discourse' -- 'Why not' funü jiaoyu? -- 'Funü, nüxing' and the 'suzhi' discourse -- 'What is quality' ("suzhi")? -- Suzhi, funü 'and new' nüxing -- Conclusion: Time, women and the affective value of the formulated text -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 14. A cognitive semantic study of Chinese non-basic color terms from the perspective of cognitive semantics -- Introduction -- Defining Chinese basic color terms and non-basic color terms -- Research procedure -- The representation forms of Chinese non-basic color terms -- Object color terms -- Proper noun color terms -- Color terms denoting degree -- Color terms denoting mixed color -- Cognitive motivations of Chinese non-basic color terms -- Metaphor.

Metonymy -- Conceptual integration -- Socio-cultural factors involved in the naming of Chinese non-basic color terms -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity.

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