LINGUIST List 25.775
Sat
Feb 15 2014
FYI: Cultural
Linguistics: a New Multidisciplinary Field of
Research
Editor for this issue:
Uliana Kazagasheva <ulianalinguistlist.org>
Date: 14-Feb-2014
From: Hyejeong Ahn
<arts-lasc
monash.edu>
Subject: Cultural Linguistics:
a New Multidisciplinary Field of Research
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The website of Cultural Linguistics is now up
and running, here is the link:
http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/farzad-sharifian/cultural-linguistics/
Cultural Linguistics is a multidisciplinary
area of research that explores the relationship
between language, culture, and
conceptualisation. Originally, this area 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. For Cultural Linguistics, many
features of human languages are entrenched in
cultural conceptualisations, including cultural
models.
In recent years, while Cultural Linguistics has
maintained its interest in cognitive linguistic
research’s exploration of the role of culture
as a source of conceptualising experience, it
has drawn on several other disciplines and
sub-disciplines, such as complexity science,
distributed cognition, and cognitive
anthropology 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. Research carried out within
these applied areas has shed significant light
on the nature of the relationship between
language and culture.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological
Linguistics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s):
English (eng)
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