The Cultural Semantics Of Address Practices
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The Cultural Semantics Of Address Practices
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Author : Gian Marco Farese
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-08-15
The Cultural Semantics Of Address Practices written by Gian Marco Farese and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from a cultural semantics perspective. The analysis investigates the different cultural values underlying address practices in English and Italian and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by differences in intercultural interactions.
The Cultural Semantics Of Forms Of Address
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Author : Gian Marco Farese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Cultural Semantics Of Forms Of Address written by Gian Marco Farese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
This study analyses forms of address from both a semantic and cultural point of view with a twofold aim: (i) to show that forms of address express a proper meaning which can be clearly pinpointed with a suitable methodology; (ii) to highlight the differences in address practices of different linguacultures and their implications for cross-cultural communication. The approach taken is that of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture. Combining semantics and cultural studies, cultural semantics is closely related to various sub-branches of linguistics, most importantly cross-cultural communication, intercultural pragmatics and translation theory. Researchers in cultural semantics adopt the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage created by Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard and developed in collaboration with numerous academics from around the world. Over decades of cross-linguistic research, NSM has proved itself an optimal methodology to investigate the meanings of words in cross-linguistic perspective, in particular emotion words, cultural keywords and more recently musical terms. The analysis of forms of address is a new application of NSM, and in this case, too, the methodology has proved itself the ideal tool for this purpose. To the best of my knowledge, never before in address research has a scholar done an extended study of the meanings of address expressions and the set of cultural values which guide address practices in a linguacultural world. In line with NSM researchers, the premise to this study is that to pinpoint the meaning of various address expressions and capture the cultural assumptions underlying address practices in English and Italian, it is necessary to produce definitions which are comparable. This permits to highlight the differences between the two linguacultures clearly and to provide language learners and culture outsiders with optimal tools which they can use for cross-cultural training. Although the present study is not written in the form of textbook, being based on NSM it is of considerable pedagogical use. This study is aimed at a very wide readership which includes not only scholars in linguistics, but anyone interested in issues in intercultural communication. In Chapter 1 of the thesis, I review the main studies on address with particular attention to those which are most pertinent to my analysis. In Chapter 2, I introduce the methodology of semantic analysis which I adopted and present my body data. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on the "greetings" Hi and Ciao. In chapters 5 and 6 I analyse nouns used to address people in English and Italian. Chapters 7 to 10 are dedicated to the analysis of the meaning of opening and closing salutations in letters and e-mails and finally, Chapters 11 to 13 focus on cultural scripts and the implications of differences in address practices for intercultural interactions.
Ethnopragmatics
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Author : Cliff Goddard
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-04-20
Ethnopragmatics written by Cliff Goddard and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.
Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication
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Author : Kerry Mullan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-10-24
Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication written by Kerry Mullan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.
Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication
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Author : Bert Peeters
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-10-23
Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication written by Bert Peeters and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. It focuses on meaning and culture, with sections on "Words as Carriers of Cultural Meaning" and "Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context". Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.
The Routledge Handbook Of Cognitive Linguistics
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Author : Wen Xu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-06-03
The Routledge Handbook Of Cognitive Linguistics written by Wen Xu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.
The Handbook Of Cultural Linguistics
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Author : Alireza Korangy
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-05-31
The Handbook Of Cultural Linguistics written by Alireza Korangy and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers global, comparative insights into the field. Diversity does not always imply differences, but it also offers insights into surprising similarities and parallels when it comes to expressions. By the same token, this collection shows that when we see that linguistic differences, when they exist, stem from not merely language, but from the cultural and historical context that cultivates and nurtures them. Within that paradigm, then, this handbook locates the importance of philosophy, religion (or even the lack thereof), political affiliations, and so on, in forming expressions. In addition, comparisons with other models of cultural linguistics are undertaken. These trends provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to issues in cultural linguistics, addressing the peculiarities of the field under the rubric of localized studies, and speaking to the possibilities that exist in interpretation of what metaphors are. The book highlights the complexities that are so tightly interwoven into the fabric of every word and a sentence, across cultures and linguistic traditions. A must-have collection for anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, philologists, theoreticians, rhetoricians, and scholars of poetics, this is the one-stop reference in cultural linguistics.
Cultural Keywords In Discourse
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Author : Carsten Levisen
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-10-15
Cultural Keywords In Discourse written by Carsten Levisen and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book contributes to a global turn in cultural keyword studies by exploring keywords from discourse communities in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Melanesia, Mexico and Scandinavia. Providing new case studies, the volume showcases the diversity of ways in which cultural logics form and shape discourse. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach is used as a unifying framework for the studies. This approach offers an attractive methodology for doing explorative discourse analysis on emic and culturally-sensitive grounds. Cultural Keywords in Discourse will be of interest to researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, cultural discourse studies, linguistic ethnography and intercultural communication.
Postcolonial Semantics
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Author : Carsten Levisen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-04-01
Postcolonial Semantics written by Carsten Levisen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Global knowledge production increasingly happens through one particular language: modern Anglo English. What does the Anglocentric reliance of English words and phrases mean for the way we make claims, formulate research questions, and develop theories? In this monograph, these questions are scrutinized and explored through "Postcolonial Semantics", a new framework that draws on advances in postcolonial linguistics and cognitive/cultural semantics. Through original semantic work on Bislama words and Urban Pacific concepts, each chapter provides alternatives to Anglocentric linguistic framings of knowledge in the domains of language, communication, sociology, psychology, and geopolitics. Highlighting the pluriversality of meaning-making and the multipolarity of knowledge, the book speaks into central themes in semantics, including the question of metalanguage and the representation of meaning, as well as contact-zone semantics and the colonial matrix of power. All analyses are provided in both English and Bislama through a translatable semantic metalanguage of shared human concepts. Apart from semanticists and postcolonial language scholars, the monograph is of interest to researchers and research students in fields such as World Englishes, creole studies, linguistic anthropology, intercultural pragmatics, and global discourse studies.
Translating Cultures
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Author : David Katan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Translating Cultures written by David Katan and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This bestselling coursebook introduces current understanding about culture and provides a model for teaching culture to translators, interpreters and other mediators. The approach is interdisciplinary, with theory from Translation Studies and beyond, while authentic texts and translations illustrate intercultural issues and strategies adopted to overcome them. This new (third) edition has been thoroughly revised to update scholarship and examples and now includes new languages such as Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish, and examples from interpreting settings. This edition revisits the chapters based on recent developments in scholarship in intercultural communication, cultural mediation, translation and interpreting. It aims to achieve a more balanced representation of written and spoken communication by giving more attention to interpreting than the previous editions, especially in interactional settings. Enriched with discussion of key recent scholarly contributions, each practical example has been revisited and/ or updated. Complemented with online resources, which may be used by both teachers and students, this is the ideal resource for all students of translation and interpreting, as well as any reader interested in communication across cultural divides. Additional resources are available on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal: http://routledgetranslationstudiesportal.com/