Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life
Editors
The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity. The volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers from the 7th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind with other specially commissioned chapters. Like the conference, this book aims to enhance mutual understanding among researchers from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, offering a wealth of insights to a wide range of readers on recent culturally oriented cognitive studies of language.
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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ForewordChris Sinha | pp. vii–viii
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Introduction. Language, culture and identity: Signs of lifeVera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian | pp. 1–6
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Chapter 1. Philosophy and philosophical practice: Eurocentrism as an epistemology of ignoranceLinda Martín Alcoff | pp. 7–22
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Chapter 2. Translation and transnationality in the Himalaya: Writing Gorkha language and culturePrem Poddar | pp. 23–42
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Chapter 3. North-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism?Colette Grinevald and Chris Sinha | pp. 43–62
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Chapter 4. My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher: A personal accountWary Kamaiurá Sabino and Ana Moreno-Núñez | pp. 63–73
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Chapter 5. The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesisStef Spronck | pp. 75–110
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Chapter 6. A framing-based account of critical cultural awarenessYuanyuan He | pp. 111–140
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Chapter 7. Cultural “Signs of life” in politics: A case study of eulogistic idioms for Taiwanese politiciansWei-lun Lu | pp. 141–156
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Chapter 8. Construing the self in discourse: A socio-cognitive approachYanying Lu | pp. 157–179
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Chapter 9. Embodiment, personification, identity: Metaphor and world view in a Brazilian Tupian culture and languageWany Bernardete de Araujo Sampaio, Vera da Silva Sinha and Chris Sinha | pp. 181–202
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Chapter 10. Mid hefigum byrþenum : A study of the burden metaphor in Old EnglishPenelope Scott | pp. 203–225
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Chapter 11. Cultural and cognitive aspects of narrative: A cross-linguistic studyMing Ming Pu and Qinghong Pu | pp. 227–248
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Chapter 12. How can I persuade you without making self-assertions? A cognitive rhetorical analysis of the use of fictive questions in an early Daoist textMingjian Xiang and Bosen Ma | pp. 249–274
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Chapter 13. “Keeping up with the times”: Nüxing, funü and the affective value of the formulated textXuefei Ma | pp. 275–293
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Chapter 14. A study of Chinese non-basic color terms from the perspective of cognitive semanticsYahong Xue | pp. 295–316
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Index | pp. 317–319
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General