Language and culture : global flows and local complexity / Karen Risager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risager, Karen, 1947-

Series:

Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 11.

Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Language and Culture in a Global Perspective

Chapter 2. Tour de France in German Language Teaching: A Preliminary Analysis

Chapter 3. The Concept of Culture: An Introduction

Chapter 4. Language, Nation and Culture: The German Tradition

Chapter 5. Cultural Complexity

Chapter 6. A Sociolinguistic View of Language

Chapter 7. Linguistic Flows and Linguistic Complexity

Chapter 8. Languacultural Dimensions

Chapter 9. Discourse and Double Intertextuality

Chapter 10. Cultural Contexts

Chapter 11. Cultural Contents

Chapter 12. Linguistic, Discursive and Cultural Flows

Chapter 13. The Language-Culture Nexus

Chapter 14. Language and Culture: A Multidimensional Relationship

References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212).

ISBN:

9786610501816

9781280501814

1280501812

9781853598609

1853598607

OCLC:

560376009