Author : Nancy Bonvillain
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780130104298
For courses in Language and Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, and Language and Communication. Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages this text explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. It examines the multi-faceted meanings and uses of language and emphasizes the ways that language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions.
Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Professor Sapir analyzes, for student and common reader, the elements of language. Among these are the units of language, grammatical concepts and their origins, how languages differ and resemble each other, and the history of the growth of representative languages--Cover.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : F. Bostad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2004-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230005675
In this multi-disciplinary volume, comprising the work of several established scholars from different countries, central concepts associated with the work of the Bakhtin Circle are interrogated in relation to intellectual history, language theory and an understanding of new media. The book will prove an important resource for those interested in the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle, but also for those attempting to develop a coherent theoretical approach to language in use and problems of meaning production in new media.
Author : Claire Kramsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194372145
This work investigates the close relationship between language and culture. It explains key concepts such as social context and cultural authenticity, using insights from fields which includes linguistics, sociology, and anthropology.
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198038976
It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Anna Wierzbicka, the distinguished linguist known for her theories of semantics, has written the first book that connects the English language with what she terms "Anglo" culture. Wierzbicka points out that language and culture are not just interconnected, but inseparable. She uses original research to investigate the "universe of meaning" within the English language (both grammar and vocabulary) and places it in historical and geographical perspective. This engrossing and fascinating work of scholarship should appeal not only to linguists and others concerned with language and culture, but the large group of scholars studying English and English as a second language.
Author : David Ludden
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1483356310
Breaking through the boundaries of traditional psycholinguistics textbooks, The Psychology of Language: An Integrated Approach takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that weaves the latest developmental and neuroscience research into every chapter. Separate chapters on bilingualism and sign language and integrated coverage of the social aspects of language acquisition and language use provide a breadth of coverage not found in other texts. In addition, rich pedagogy in every chapter and an engaging conversational writing style help students understand the connections between core psycholinguistic material and findings from across the psychological sciences.
Author : David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351972715
A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content that produces the behavior? Is it to be viewed as a coherent whole or only a collection of disparate parts? Culture is shared, but how totally? How is culture learned and maintained over time, and how does it change? In Meaning and Significance in Human Engagement, Kronenfeld adopts a cognitive approach to culture to offer answers to these questions. Combining insights from cognitive psychology and linguistic anthropology with research on collective knowledge systems, he offers an understanding of culture as a phenomenon produced and shaped by a combination of conditions, constraints and logic. Engagingly written, it is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology of culture, philosophy, and computational cognitive science.
Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521851920
An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Author : Yanying Lu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027261776
This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major roads, this book is the junction that unites them by arguing that selfhood occurs at their interface. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to unpack manifestations and perceptions of ‘self’ in the contemporary Chinese diaspora discourse from the perspectives of Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and the newly developed Cultural Linguistics. This book not only discusses empirical and theoretical issues on the conceptualisation and communication of social identity in a cross-cultural context, it also reveals how traditional and modern ideas in Chinese culture are interacting with those of other world cultures. Considering the power of language, enduring and emerging beliefs and stances that permeate these speakers’ views on their social being and outlooks on life impart their significance in cross-cultural communication and pragmatics. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
