Advances in Cultural Linguistics

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ID20048741
AuthorsFarzad Sharifian (0000-0002-8420-2667, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages99-123
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueApproaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137274823_5
OpenAlexW2490409894
ISBN9781137274823
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited57

This chapter provides an account of the development of Cultural Linguistics as a multidisciplinary area exploring the relationship between language, culture, and conceptualisation. Cultural Linguistics grew out of an interest in integrating cognitive linguistics with the three traditions within linguistic anthropology of Boasian linguistics, ethnosemantics, and the ethnography of speaking. In the last decade, Cultural Linguistics has also found strong common ground with cognitive anthropology, since both explore cultural models that characterise cultural groups. For Cultural Linguistics, many features of human languages are entrenched in cultural conceptualisations, including cultural models. In recent years, Cultural Linguistics has drawn on several disciplines and sub-disciplines, such as complexity science and distributed cognition, to enrich its theoretical understanding of the notion of cultural cognition. Applications of Cultural Linguistics have enabled fruitful investigations of the cultural grounding of language in several applied domains such as World Englishes, intercultural communication, and political discourse analysis. This chapter elaborates on these observations and provides illustrative examples of linguistic research from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics

Anthropological linguistics · Applied linguistics · Clinical linguistics · Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Comprehension approach · Contrastive linguistics · Cultural analysis · Cultural neuroscience · Ethnolinguistics · Language and Communication Technologies · Language education · Language technology · Linguistics · Media linguistics · Quantitative linguistics · Sociocultural linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology

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