The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

539 Pages·2014·3.62 MB·English

by  Farzad Sharifian

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
TheRoutledgeHandbookofLanguageandCulturepresentsthefirstcomprehensive survey of research
ontherelationshipbetweenlanguageandculture.Itprovidesreaderswithaclearandaccessible
introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and
addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of
perspectives and theoretical frameworks.
This Handbook features thirty-three newly commissioned chapters which:
(cid:1) cover key areas such as cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology,
linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics
(cid:1) offerinsightsintothehistoricaldevelopment,contemporarytheory,research,andpracticeof
each topic, and explore the potential future directions of the field
(cid:1) show readers how language and culture research can be of practical benefit to applied areas
of research and practice, such as intercultural communication and second language teaching
and learning.
Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of
Language and Culture provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.
Farzad Sharifian is a Professor within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and
Linguistics, and the Director of Language and Society Centre at Monash University, Australia.
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THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF LANGUAGE
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CONTENTS
List of figures and tables ix
List of contributors x
Acknowledgements xv
PARTI
Overview and historical background 1
1 Language and culture: overview 3
Farzad Sharifian
2 Linguistic relativity: precursors and transformations 18
John Leavitt
PARTII
Ethnolinguistics 31
3 Ethnosyntax 33
Anna Gladkova
4 Ethnosemantics 51
John Leavitt
5 Ethnopragmatics 66
Cliff Goddard, with Zhengdao Ye
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Contents
PARTIII
Studies of language and culture 85
6 Linguaculture: the language–culture nexus in transnational
perspective 87
Karen Risager
7 Language, gender, and culture 100
Lidia Tanaka
8 Language, culture, and context 113
Istvan Kecskes
9 Language, culture, and politeness 129
Sara Mills
10 Language, culture, and interaction 141
Peter Eglin
11 Culture and kinship language 154
David B. Kronenfeld
12 Cultural semiotics 170
Peeter Torop
13 Culture and translation 181
Nigel Armstrong
14 Language, culture, and identity 196
Sandra R. Schecter
15 Language and culture history: the contribution of linguistic
prehistory 209
Patrick McConvell
PARTIV
Language, culture, and cognition 225
16 Embodiment, culture, and language 227
Ning Yu
17 Culture and language processing 240
Crystal J. Robinson and Jeanette Altarriba
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Contents
18 Language, culture, and prototypicality 253
Frank Polzenhagen and Xiaoyan Xia
19 Colour language, thought, and culture 270
Don Dedrick
20 Language, culture, and spatial cognition 294
Penelope Brown
21 Space, time, and space–time: metaphors, maps, and fusions 309
Chris Sinha and Enrique Bernárdez
22 Culture and language development 325
Laura Sterponi and Paul F. Lai
23 Language and cultural scripts 339
Anna Wierzbicka
24 Culture and emotional language 357
Jean-Marc Dewaele
PARTV
Research on language and culture in related
disciplines/sub-disciplines 371
25 Language and culture in sociolinguistics 373
Meredith Marra
26 Language and culture in cognitive anthropology 386
Claudia Strauss
PARTVI
Language and culture in applied domains 401
27 Language and culture in second language learning 403
Claire Kramsch
28 Writing across cultures: ‘culture’ in second language writing studies 417
Dwight Atkinson
29 Language and culture in second dialect learning 431
Ian G. Malcolm
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Contents
30 Language and culture in intercultural communication 445
Hans-Georg Wolf
31 World Englishes and local cultures 460
Andy Kirkpatrick
PARTVII
Cultural linguistics: past, present, and future directions 471
32 Cultural Linguistics 473
Farzad Sharifian
33 A future agenda for research on language and culture 493
Roslyn M. Frank
Index 513
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FIGURES AND TABLES
Figures
4.1 Pronominal dimensions 60
8.1 Understanding context 118
8.2 The dynamic model of meaning 120
12.1 Jakobson’s model of communication 171
12.2 Hierarchy of objective and descriptive languages 174
12.3 Metacommunication and intercommunication 177
16.1 The difference between Western and Chinese cultures in the conceptualization
of ‘person’ 234
21.1 An Amondawa speaker spatially maps the seasonal time intervals 318
30.1 The artefactual result of a conceptual blend, with Western eating utensils and
Asian eating utensils as separate input spaces 456
32.1 A diagrammatic representation of Palmer’s (1996) proposal for Cultural
Linguistics 474
32.2 Model of cultural cognition, cultural conceptualizations, and language 478
32.3 Diagrammaticrepresentationofaculturalschema(adaptedfromSharifian,2011) 479
Tables
1.1 Three different paradigms in the history of the study of language
as culture (Duranti, 2003) 4
5.1 Semantic primes (English exponents) 67
5.2 Fifty Anglo English cultural keywords (Wierzbicka 2014) 70
15.1 The terms mana, marna and japi in Walmajarri and Warlpiri 219
17.1 Summary of relevant findings 250
21.1 Space–time correspondences in the genetically unrelated Andean languages
Aymara (Nuñez and Cornejo 2012) and Quechua (e.g. Hurtado de Mendoza
2002; Bernárdez, 2014) 320
32.1 A comparison of Aboriginal and Anglo-Australian meanings for ‘family’ 484
33.1 Traditional view and distributed cognition view (adapted from
Waloszek (2003); Hollan, Hutchins and Kirsh (2000)) 502
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