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Advances in cultural linguistics

Farzad Sharifian

pp. 99-123

Abstract

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.

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Yamaguchi Masataka, Tay Dennis, Blount Benjamin (2014) Approaches to language, culture, and cognition: the intersection of cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 99-123

DOI: 10.1057/9781137274823_5

Full citation:

Sharifian Farzad (2014) „Advances in cultural linguistics“, In: M. Yamaguchi, D. Tay & B. Blount (eds.), Approaches to language, culture, and cognition, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 99–123.