SubjectsLinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Journals
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Language, Culture and Society
General Editor: Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux
ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156
ISSN 2214-9953 | E‑ISSN 2214‑9961
Book series
Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts
Edited by Ning Yu and Hans-Georg Wolf
ISSN 1879-8047
Topics in Address Research
Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat
ISSN 2405-9269
Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas
This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University,… read more[Not in series, 244] 2026. viii, 226 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
Talk Goes Many Ways: Language and social life in a Papua New Guinea village
Darja Hoenigman
'The Talk Goes Many Ways' is a fascinating anthropological study of language use among the Awiakay, a small village society in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Innovative in the way it integrates written analysis with segments of observational film, the book pairs key social themes with… read moreOther subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research
Edited by Máiréad Moriarty and Maida Kosatica
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 11:2 (2025) v, 100 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English
Denisa Latić
This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language, exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this, cultural values, political ideology, language models, and reported self- and other-perception as… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 19] 2025. xviii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”
Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno
Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Axel Bohmann
This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs
Veronika Szelid
Most Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE, and what does THE SACRED have to do with these? Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this book reveals the profound connections between the three… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 18] 2025. xi, 265 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025) v, 208 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Towards an Integrated Approach to Heritage and School Languages in Education Policies: The case of multilingual Geneva
Edited by Claire de Goumoëns, Laurent Gajo and Myriam Radhouane
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 49:3 (2025) v, 107 pp.
10th Anniversary Issue: Engaging with LL futures
Edited by Robert Blackwood and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 10:4 (2024) v, 110 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein
This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics… read more
Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue: Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools
Nicola Nasi
Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor,… read more[Dialogue Studies, 34] 2024. x, 202 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology
Les droits fondamentaux linguistiques existent-ils? / Do Linguistic Human Rights Exist?
Edited by Laure Clément-Wilz
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 48:2 (2024) v, 101 pp.
Space, Time, World
Michael Fortescue
Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 77] 2024. viii, 223 pp
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Manufacturing Knowledge
Edited by Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 5:2 (2023) v, 112 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa
Edited by Nico Nassenstein, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023) vi, 161 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 9:3 (2023) v, 109 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Promoting linguistic vitality through public policy: The role of rules, costs and incentives
Edited by Bengt-Arne Wickström, Noémi Nagy, Anneliese Rieger-Roschitz and Balázs Vizi
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 47:2 (2023) v, 117 pp.
Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino
Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 4:2 (2022) v, 171 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language, conflict and security
Edited by Roberta Medda-Windischer and Andrea Carlà
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 46:2 (2022) v, 118 pp.
The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19
Edited by Jackie Jia Lou, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 (2022) vi, 176 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Anna Gladkova and Jesús Romero-Trillo
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021) vii, 168 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel
This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far,… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] 2021. vii, 279 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World
Edited by Thom Huebner
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 7:2 (2021) v, 141 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language, Epistemology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Edited by Alfonso Del Percio, Patricia Baquedano-López, Miguel Pérez-Milans and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 3:2 (2021) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia: A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current picture are not yet fully understood. This book… read more[Contact Language Library, 58] 2021. xvii, 211 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of South America
Revisiting Linguistic Territoriality in Contemporary Europe
Edited by Till Burckhardt, John Coakley and László Marácz
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 45:2 (2021) v, 140 pp.
Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact
Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka
This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and historical factors, the book’s eight chapters investigate phenomena… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12] 2021. v, 235 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 12] 2020. vii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse
Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata
This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] 2020. vii, 291 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life
Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian
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… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
Metasex – The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression
Anne Storch and Nico Nassenstein
This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global… read more[Culture and Language Use, 22] 2020. ix, 132 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology
Minorities in Italy in a changing legal landscape
Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro and Vittorio Dell’Aquila
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 44:3 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community
Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages
Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen
All humans eat and all humans speak – activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which contributes to establishing communities and identities. This… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] 2020. vi, 284 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
40 Years of Bill 101 in Québec
Edited by François Vaillancourt
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 43:2 (2019) v, 138 pp.
Creativity in Language
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019) vi, 223 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Documentary Linguistics: Working with Communities
Edited by Sumittra Suraratdecha and Toshihide Nakayama
Special issue of Language Ecology 3:2 (2019) v, 122 pp.
X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Crispin Thurlow and Kellie Gonçalves
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 5:2 (2019) v, 106 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 (2018) v, 190 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 4:3 (2018) v, 119 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea: Childhood and educational ideologies in Tauwema
Barbara Senft and Gunter Senft
This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education… read moreOther subjects Austronesian languages | Sociology
Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives
Helen Bromhead
The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 9] 2018. xii, 227 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics
Language of Empire, Language of Power
Edited by Kees Versteegh
Special issue of Language Ecology 2:1/2 (2018) v, 146 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond
Edited by Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei
This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines, including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design. The chapters have been… read more[Not in series, 217] 2018. xx, 470 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | General studies in art & art history
Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
In Word Hunters, eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] 2018. vi, 177 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space
Edited by Anne Storch
This book is the result of intensive and continued discussions about the social role of language and its conceptualisations in societies other than Northern (European-American) ones. Language as a means of expressing as well as evoking both interiority and community has been in the focus of these… read more[Culture and Language Use, 19] 2017. vii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru
Elena Mihas
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perené Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book’s methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 181] 2017. xxi, 343 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Languages of South America | Pragmatics | Syntax
Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:2 (2017) v, 152 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Cultural Linguistics: Cultural conceptualisations and language
Farzad Sharifian †
This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 8] 2017. xvii, 171 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Emotions across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Ad Foolen
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:1 (2017) v, 119 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Gunter Senft
This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s… read moreOther subjects Austronesian languages | Narrative Studies
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of… read moreOther subjects Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Mapping Genres, Mapping Culture: Japanese texts in context
Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano and Helen de Silva Joyce
The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of genre and genre variation in the Japanese language in order to bring to consciousness the nature of Japanese culture and the presuppositions, norms and values found within Japanese society. This type of knowledge enables… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 281] 2017. vi, 248 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Methodology in Linguistic Landscape Research
Edited by Robert Blackwood
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 3:3 (2017) v, 113 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers
Anna Katrina Gutierrez
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers considers retellings and adaptations from a ‘glocal’ context: a framework focused on the reciprocal and cross-cultural exchange between global processes and local practices and their potential transformative effects. The study… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 8] 2017. xix, 230 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Narrative Studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Worldmaking: Literature, language, culture
Edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay and Philippa Kelly
In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of “worlds” to language and literature, formulating the term, “worldmaking” to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the “world” we know right now. We cannot catch or know “the world” as such: all we can catch are the world versions -… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 5] 2017. xv, 235 pp.
Exploring Language Aggression against Women
Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch
Exploring Language Aggression against Women presents a collection of systematic studies that delve into the critical role of language in constructing violence, creating inequality, and justifying discrimination against women. Drawing on a range of discourse analytic methods, this volume subjects to… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 86] 2016. v, 159 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner
This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland,… read more[Culture and Language Use, 18] 2016. x, 492 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Master Narratives, Identities, and the Stories of Former Slaves
Jonathan Clifton and Dorien Van De Mieroop
This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More… read more[Studies in Narrative, 22] 2016. viii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Memory and memorialization
Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 2:3 (2016) v, 104 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Queering Borders: Language, sexuality, and migration
Edited by David A.B. Murray
In recent years, migration has moved to the forefront of national and global debates, intensifying discussions about borders, security, identity and citizenship. In this volume we ask how language and sexuality impact these discussions: how do sexuality and language contribute toward the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 85] 2016. v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye
In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa
Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin
This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Language documentation | Other African languages
Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations
Edited by Elisabeth Piirainen and Ari Sherris
Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units – often particularly fragile parts of language – has been largely neglected until recently. This book, like… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 7] 2015. vi, 208 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language documentation | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors
Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics
Edited by Bert Peeters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 (2015) vii, 161 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Language and Material Culture
Allison Paige Burkette
This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 38] 2015. xvii, 192 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Languages of Governance in Conflict: Negotiating democracy in Tokelau
Ingjerd Hoëm
Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau, the book adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction, and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality. It… read more[Culture and Language Use, 13] 2015. xxii, 152 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands
Edited by Farzana Gounder
Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the world’s known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across… read more[Studies in Narrative, 21] 2015. xvi, 260 pp.
Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults
Gunter Senft
This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate… read moreOther subjects Austronesian languages | Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics
Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican
Andrea Hollington
Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.
"Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 (2014) v, 141 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Colour Studies: A broad spectrum
Edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay
This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been… read more[Not in series, 191] 2014. xiv, 417 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics
A Grammar of Luwo: An anthropological approach
Anne Storch
This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art… read more[Culture and Language Use, 12] 2014. xvii, 291 pp.
Other subjects Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics
Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands
Danny Law
This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America
Language Description Informed by Theory
Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin
This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.
Other subjects Language documentation | Theoretical linguistics
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)
Maïa Ponsonnet
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 4] 2014. xxvii, 466 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax
The Spatial Language of Time: Metaphor, metonymy, and frames of reference
Kevin Ezra Moore
The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 42] 2014. xxv, 340 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special
Edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley
Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent crucial sites for socialization, identity construction, and the everyday fabrication and perception of the world as a… read moreOther subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication
Murray Garde
The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem — how one knows who is being talked about in conversation — from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective.… read more[Culture and Language Use, 11] 2013. xx, 274 pp.
Other subjects Australian languages | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
Displacement, Language Maintenance and Identity: Sudanese refugees in Australia
Anikó Hatoss
This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 34] 2013. xviii, 259 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island
Joshua Nash
How do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human… read more[Culture and Language Use, 9] 2013. xiv, 302 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Persistence of Language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill
Edited by Shannon T. Bischoff, Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita
This edited collection presents two sets of interdisciplinary conversations connecting theoretical, methodological, and ideological issues in the study of language. In the first section, Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, the authors connect historical,… read more[Culture and Language Use, 8] 2013. xxx, 440 pp.
Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan. New directions in language documentation and language revitalization
Edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley
This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 142] 2013. xv, 273 pp.
Other subjects Language documentation | Language policy
Endangered Metaphors
Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen
When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 2] 2012. vi, 376 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian
Karen A. Roesch
This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with… read more[Culture and Language Use, 6] 2012. xv, 253 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Cultural Conceptualisations and Language: Theoretical framework and applications
Farzad Sharifian †
This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 1] 2011. xvii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Homo Symbolicus: The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
Edited by Christopher S. Henshilwood and Francesco d'Errico
The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this book the… read more[Not in series, 168] 2011. xi, 237 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Cognition and language | Evolution of language
Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea
Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists… read more[Culture and Language Use, 4] 2011. xiii, 449 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
New Directions in Colour Studies
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons
Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of… read more[Not in series, 167] 2011. xii, 462 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics
Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts
Baudouin Dupret
The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a “member phenomenon”. To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 214] 2011. xiv, 173 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Pragmatics
Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
Edited by Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair
After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 1] 2011. vi, 239 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Gesture Studies | Interaction Studies
The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and other narrative songs of the Trobriand Islanders and their spirits of the dead
Gunter Senft
The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles "Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands" and "Myth in Primitive Psychology". There he also presented the… read moreOther subjects Austronesian languages
Language Documentation: Practice and values
Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee
Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details… read more[Not in series, 158] 2010. xviii, 340 pp.
Other subjects Language documentation | Theoretical linguistics
Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study
Svenja Völkel
This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a… read more[Culture and Language Use, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp.
Other subjects Austronesian languages | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures
Edited by Francesco d'Errico and Jean-Marie Hombert
Few topics of scientific enquiry have attracted more attention in the last decade than the origin and evolution of language. Few have offered an equivalent intellectual challenge for interdisciplinary collaborations between linguistics, cognitive science, prehistoric archaeology,… read more[Not in series, 152] 2009. vi, 289 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language
In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming
Edited by John D. Bengtson
Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of… read more[Not in series, 145] 2008. xxiv, 476 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors… read moreOther subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture
Edited by Carole P. Biggam and Christian Kay
Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled ‘Progress in Colour Studies’ which… read more[Not in series, PICS 1] 2006. xii, 223 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
And Along Came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology
Regna Darnell
The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 86] 1998. xviii, 333 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Languages of North America | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Nordfriesische Grabhügelnamen mit anthroponymem Erstglied: Zur form und flexion älterer nordfriesischer rufnamen
Volkert F. Faltings
Die vorliegende Monographie behandelt die nordfriesischen Grabhügelnamen und die darin enthaltenen Anthroponyme. Die sprachgeschichtliche Analyse des Namenmaterials stützt sich dabei auf ein vielschichtiges Quellenmaterial, wobei ein spezielles Augenmerk den morphologischen Merkmalen gilt.… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 14] 1996. vi, 186 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction
Penny Lee
At last — a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger ‘theory complex’ delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf’s almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 81] 1996. xix, 324 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | History of linguistics
Literary Anthropology: A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial… read more[Not in series, 36] 1988. xxiii, 353 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics
Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology
Dell H. Hymes
Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem the personalities of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 25] 1983. xxiii, 406 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics