Cultural Linguistics and the Social World

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is a habilitated associate professor of linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Faculty of Humanities, in Veszprém, Hungary. Her research focuses on language, conceptualization, and culture within the framework of cognitive semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Cultural Linguistics. The main fields of her investigation include body-part semantics, embodied cultural metaphors, and folk cultural metaphors. She has made notable contributions to the field of cultural-cognitive linguistics, with a monograph published by Springer, numerous papers, and various edited volumes to her credit. Diana Prodanović Stankić is a professor of linguistics at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research focuses on the interaction of language, culture, and cognition. She has authored four monographs and dozens of papers in the field of cognitive linguistics. Her latest monograph, Multimodal Humour at Play: A Cultural Linguistic Perspective (2023), deals with the application of cultural linguistics to multimodal and humorous discourse in translation and education. Olga Panić Kavgić is an associate professor of linguistics at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her main research interests include pragmatics, contact and contrastive linguistics, cultural linguistics, translation studies, and grammar. She has so far published three monographs, over sixty papers in regional and international journals, conference proceedings and thematic issues, and co-authored two dictionaries. She did research at universities in Chicago, St. Petersburg, Oslo, and Innsbruck.

• Introduction Cultural Linguistics and the Social World.- Cultural conceptualizations of the social world within the cinema-related vocabulary.- Underlying cultural conceptualizations in Serbian film titles and their translations into English.- Still the distant, exotic Other? The cultural conceptualization of Africa in Hungarian online news.- Cultural conceptualization of Restoration libertine identity.- Is this us? The cultural conceptualization of individualization in American political speeches.- Metaphors of GEO-POLITICAL SPACE in Ghanaian political discourse: A Cultural Linguistics analysis.- Weather metaphors in medicine. A case study: The cytokine storm metaphors in English, French, and Romanian.- Cultural conceptualization of OLD AGE in English.- COVID-19 pandemic: What is behind the scenes.- Language and cultural conceptualisations in intercultural healthcare communication.