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This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition. The materials surveyed in its chapters demonstrate how cultural conceptualisations encoded in language relate to all aspects of human life - from emotion and embodiment to kinship, religion, marriage and politics, even the understanding of life and death. Cultural Linguistics draws on cognitive science, complexity science and distributed cognition, among other disciplines, to strengthen its theoretical and analytical base. The tools it has developed have worked toward insightful investigations into the cultural grounding of language in numerous applied domains, including World Englishes, cross-cultural/intercultural pragmatics, intercultural communication, Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL), and political discourse analysis.
About the author
Professor Farzad Sharifian is a pioneer of Cultural Linguistics and holds the Chair in Cultural Linguistics at Monash University. He has developed a theoretical and an analytical framework of cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations, and language. He has also applied Cultural Linguistics to several areas of applied linguistics, including intercultural communication, cross-cultural/intercultural pragmatics, Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL), World Englishes, and political discourse analysis. He is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Language and Culture (John Benjamins) and has published extensively in many international journals and edited books.
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