Advances in Cultural Linguistics

Professor Farzad Sharifian is a pioneer of Cultural Linguistics and holds the Chair in Cultural Linguistics at Monash University. He has developed a theoretical and an analytical framework of cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations, and language. He has also applied Cultural Linguistics to several areas of applied linguistics, including intercultural communication, cross-cultural/intercultural pragmatics, Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL), World Englishes, and political discourse analysis. He is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Language and Culture (John Benjamins) and has published extensively in many international journals and edited books.

• Chapter 1.  Cultural Linguistics: The state of the art (Farzad Sharifian).- Chapter 2. Cultural Conceptualisations in Humorous Discourse in English and Serbian (Diana Prodanović-Stankić).- Chapter 3. Cultural Conceptualizations of Death in Taiwanese Buddhist and Christian Eulogistic idioms (Wei-lun Lu).- Chapter 4. Life as Opera: A cultural metaphor in Chinese (Ning Yu).- Chapter 5. Cultural Conceptualisations of Collective Self-Representation among Chinese Immigrants (Yanying Lu).- Chapter 6. Cultural Conceptualizations of irony in Greek (Angeliki Athanasiadou).- Chapter 7. The Interface between Language and Cultural Conceptualisations of Gender in Interaction: The case of Greek (Angeliki Alvanoudi).- Chapter  8. Grounding and Relational Schemas in Managalase, Papua New Guinea (William H. McKellin).- Chapter 9. Kinship Semantics: culture in the lexicon (Alice Gaby).- Chapter 10. Cultural Conceptualizations of mouth, lips, tongue and teeth in Bulgarian and English (Aleksandra Bagasheva).- Chapter 11. Cultural Conceptualizations of river in Hungarian Folksongs (Judit Baranyine Koczy).-  Chapter 12. Pride in British English and Polish: A cultural linguistics perspective (Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk).- Chapter 13. Beyond Metaphorisation and Myth-Making: tertium datur for language and culture (Adam Głaz).- Chapter 14. Context in Cultural Linguistics: The case of metaphor (Zoltán Kövecses).- Chapter 15. Metaphor and Cultural Cognition (Andreas Musolff).- Chapter 16. The Conceptualization of ‘Austerity’ in the Portuguese, Spanish and Irish press (Augusto Soares da Silva).- Chapter 17. Cultural Conceptualisations of democracy and Political Discourse Practices in Ghana (Gladys Nyarko Ansah).- Chapter 18. Perceptions of Impoliteness: A cultural linguistics perspective (Farzad Sharifian).- Chapter 19. Seoul uncle: Cultural conceptualisations behind the use of address terms in Korean (Hyejeong Ahn).- Chapter 20. Cultural Linguistics and Ageing: What naming practices in Australia can reveal about underlying cultural conceptualizations (Réka Benczes).- Chapter 21. Evidentiality- a cultural interpretation (Enrique Bernardez).- Chapter 22. Noun Classes and Toponyms in Shüpamem (Lydie Christelle Talla Makoudjou).- Chapter 23. Corpora and Cultural Cognition: How corpus-linguistic methodology can contribute to Cultural Linguistics (Kim Ebensgaard Jensen).- Chapter 24. APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS is Cultural Linguistics, but is it CULTURAL LINGUISTICS? (Bert Peeters)-. Chapter 25. Expanding the Scope of Cultural Linguistics: Taking parrots seriously (Roslyn M. Frank)-. Chapter 26. Where Japanese and Occidental Cultural Schemas Meet: Reading nation anthropomorphization manga through the lens of Cultural Linguistics (Debra J Occhi).- Chapter 27. Are Marriages Made in Heaven? A cultural-linguistic case study on Indian-English matrimonial (Frank Polzenhagen).- Chapter 28. Terms of Adoption: Cultural conceptualfactors underlying the adoption of English for Aboriginal communication (Ian G. Malcolm).- Chapter 29. Cultural Conceptualizations in Stories of Māori-English Bilinguals: the cultural schema of marae (Marta Degani).- Chapter 30. De-escalation– A cultural-linguistic view on Military English and military conflicts (Hans-Georg Wolf).- Chapter 31. Developing Meta-Cultural Competence in Teaching English as an International Language (Zhichang Xu).- Chapter 32. Cultural Linguistics and ELT Curriculum: The case of English textbooks in Vietnam (Thuy Ngoc Dinh)