Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

Hans-Georg Wolf holds the chair of Development and Variation of the English Language at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He is co-editor of a series on cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts and serves on the editorial board of several journals focused on language and culture, as well as World Englishes.Frank Polzenhagen is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany. His research and writing focus on the study of second-language varieties of English from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective.

• Introduction, overview, and outlook 1 Language and culture: introduction to the Handbook Farzad Sharifian, Hans-Georg Wolf, and Frank Polzenhagen2 The future agenda for research on language and culture Roslyn M. FrankPART 1: The study of language and culture: the wider framework 3 Precursors and historical background John Leavitt4 Cognitive anthropology Claudia Strauss5 Cultural semiotics Peeter Torop6 Sociolinguistics and contact linguistics Part A: Sociolinguistics Meredith MarraPart B: Contact linguistics Anna Finzel7 Ethnopragmatics Cliff Goddard, Anna Gladkova, and Zhengdao Ye8 Context in intercultural pragmatics Istvan Kecskes9 Cultural Linguistics Part A: Overview Farzad SharifianPart B: Recent developments Hans‑Georg Wolf and Frank Polzenhagen10 Methods in the study of language and culture Alexander Onysko and Marcus CalliesPART 2: The study of language and culture: key domains of analysis 11 Language, culture, and identity Sandra R. Schecter12 Language, culture, and gender Lidia Tanaka13 Language, culture, and politeness Sara Mills14 Language, culture, and interaction Peter Eglin15 Language, culture, and discourse Andrew P. Carlin and Ricardo Moutinho16 Language and subcultures Heiko Motschenbacher17 Language, culture, and linguistic prehistory Patrick McConvell18 Language, culture, and kinship systems David B. Kronenfeld19 Language, culture, and colour categorization Don Dedrick20 Language, culture, and emotion concepts Jean‑Marc DewaelePART 3: Language, culture, and cognition 21 Language, culture, and embodiment Ning Yu22 Culture and language development Laura Sterponi and Paul F. Lai23 Culture and language processing Dailyn Q. Clark and Jeanette Altarriba24 Language and cultural scripts Anna Wierzbicka25 Language, culture, and metaphor Zoltan Kovecses26 Language, culture, and prototypicality Frank Polzenhagen and Xiaoyan Xia27 Language, culture, and spatial cognition Penelope Brown28 Language, culture, and space-time mapping Chris Sinha and Enrique BernárdezPART 4: Language and culture in applied domains 29 Language, culture, and intercultural communication Hans-Georg Wolf30 Language, culture, and world Englishes Andy Kirkpatrick31 Language, culture, and second dialect learning Ian G. Malcolm32 Language, culture, and higher education Sami Alhasnawi33 Language, culture, and second‑language writing Dwight Atkinson34 Language, culture, and translation Nigel Armstrong35 Language, culture, and the workplace Milene Oliveira36 Language, culture, and gesture Ulrike Schröder and Jurgen Streeck