Cultural conceptualisations and language : theoretical framework and applications / / Farzad Sharifian

• Autore: Sharifian Farzad
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Cognitive grammar; Language and culture
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cultural Conceptualisations and Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- I. Theoretical framework -- 1. On cultural conceptualisations -- 1.1 Conceptualisation -- 1.2 Cultural conceptualisations: A distributed model -- 1.3 Examples of cultural conceptualisations -- 1.3.1 Event schemas -- 1.3.2 Role schemas -- 1.3.3 Image schemas -- 1.3.4 Proposition-schemas -- 1.3.5 Emotion schemas -- 1.4 Instantiation of cultural conceptualisations -- 1.5 Identifying cultural conceptualisations -- 1.5.1 Example: The Dreamtime -- 1.6 Concluding remarks -- 2. Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language -- 2.1 The locus of cultural cognition -- 2.2 Emergent cultural cognition -- 2.3 Emergent cultural cognition as a complex adaptive system -- 2.4 Cultural conceptualisations: Cultural models, categories and schemas -- 2.5 Emergent cultural cognition and language -- 2.6 Concluding remarks -- 3. On collective cognition and language -- 3.1 Cultural cognition as a complex adaptive system -- 3.2 Cultural cognition and cultural conceptualisations -- 3.3 Cultural conceptualisations and language -- 3.4 Concluding remarks -- II. Case studies: Cultural conceptualisations in Aboriginal Languages -- 4. Aboriginal language habitat and cultural continuity -- 4.1 Cultural conceptualisations of kinship in Aboriginal languages -- 4.2 Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in English -- 4.2.1 Conceptualisations and categorisations of kinship in Aboriginal English -- 4.2.2 Aboriginal spiritual conceptualisations in Aboriginal English -- 4.2.3 Metaphor in Aboriginal English -- 4.3 Concluding remarks -- 5. Cultural conceptualisations in English words: A study of Aboriginal children in Perth. ; 5.1 Standard vs. 'non-standard' varieties: Underlying cultural models -- 5.2 Empirical investigation of Aboriginal cultural models -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.3.1 Participants -- 5.3.2 Instrument -- 5.3.3 Procedure -- 5.4 The analysis of the data -- 5.5 Findings of the empirical investigation -- 5.6 Educational implications and concluding remarks -- III. Intercultural communication -- 6. Cultural conceptualisations in intercultural communication -- 6.1 Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations -- 6.2 Concluding remarks -- 7. Cultural conceptualisations in English as an International Language (EIL) -- 7.1 EIL as a language of various cultural conceptualisations -- 7.2 The need for a revised model of communication -- 7.3 EIL and the notions of 'Language Proficiency', 'Native Speaker' and 'Teaching Model' -- 7.4 Concluding remarks -- 8. Cultural schemas and intercultural communication: A study of Persian -- 8.1 Persian language and culture -- 8.2 Sharmandegi (being ashamed) -- 8.2.1 Expressing gratitude -- 8.2.2 Offering goods and services -- 8.2.3 Requesting goods and services -- 8.2.4 Apologising -- 8.3 Concluding remarks -- IV. Cross-cultural pragmatics -- 9. The Persian cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi -- 9.1 Cultural schemas and cross-cultural pragmatics -- 9.2 The cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi in Persian -- 9.3 Methodology -- 9.3.1 Participants -- 9.3.2 Instrument -- 9.3.3 Procedure -- 9.4 Data analysis -- 9.5 Analysis of the comments -- 9.6 Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- 10. Semantic and pragmatic conceptualisations within an emerging variety: Persian English -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 English in Iran and the emerging variety of Persian English -- 10.3 Cultural conceptualisations in Persian English -- 10.3.1 Âberu -- 10.3.2 Târof -- 10.3.3 Shakhsiat -- 10.4 Greeting in Persian English -- 10.5 Terms of address. ; 10.6 Conceptualisations of emotions in Persian English -- 10.7 Concluding remarks -- V. Culture, body, self and language -- 11. Cultural conceptualisations of 'Self' and del 'heart/stomach' in Persian -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 'Self' in Persian -- 11.3 Nafs 'self' in Sufism -- 11.4 del 'spiritual heart', ruh 'spirit', and serr 'inner consciousness' in Sufism -- 11.5 Conceptualisations of del 'heart' in Sufism -- 11.6 Conceptualisations of Sufi path in Persian literature -- 11.6.1 Del and conceptual metaphors -- 11.7 nafs and del in the model Persian language -- 11.7.1 Nafs -- 11.7.2 Del -- 11.7.3 Del as the seat of emotions/feelings and desires -- 11.7.4 Del as the source of compassion -- 11.7.5 Del as the source of desires -- 11.7.6 Del as the seat of 'intellect' -- 11.7.7 Del as 'stomach'/'abdomen' -- 11.7.8 Del as the centre of personality traits, character and mood -- 11.8 Concluding remarks -- 12. Conceptualisations of cheshm 'eye' and 'perception' in Persian -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Cheshm and conceptualisations of emotions in Persian -- 12.2.1 Cheshm as the seat of love -- 12.2.2 Cheshm as the seat of envy -- 12.2.3 Conceptualisations of negah 'look' in Persian -- 12.3 Cheshm and character traits -- 12.4 Other eye-related expressions -- 12.5 Thinking as seeing -- 12.6 Intuition as perception -- 12.7 Concluding remarks -- VI. Political discourse -- 13. Figurative language in international political discourse: The case of Iran -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Figurative language: Literary or ordinary -- 13.3 Figurative language and politics -- 13.4 Figurative language in Iranian political discourse -- 13.4.1 "Israel should be wiped off the map" -- 13.4.2 To inflict US with "harm and pain" -- 13.4.3 US deserves a punch in the mouth -- 13.5 Concluding remarks -- 14. Politics and/of translation: Case studies between Persian and English. ; 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Concession and compromise -- 14.3 Jihad -- 14.4 Concluding remarks -- Final words -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 anthropology, anthropological linguistics, distributed cognition, complexity science, and cognitive psychology. The result is a framework that has significant implications for those disciplines as well as for applied linguistics. Applications of the model to intercultural communication, cross-cultural pragmatics, English as an International Language/World Englishes, and political discourse analysis are explored in detail.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural conceptualisations and language
• ISBN: 1-283-00656-1; 9786613006561; 90-272-8718-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818770703321
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