Cultural conceptualisations and language : theoretical framework and applications / Farzad Sharifian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharifian, Farzad.

Series:

Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, anthropological linguistics, distributed cognition, complexity science, and cognitive psychology. The result is a framework that has significant implications for those disciplines as well as for applied linguistics. Applications of the model to intercultural communication, cross-cultural pragmatics, English as an International Language/World Englishes, and political discourse analysis are explored in detail.

Contents:

Cultural Conceptualisations and Language

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of tables

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

I. Theoretical framework

1. On cultural conceptualisations

1.1 Conceptualisation

1.2 Cultural conceptualisations: A distributed model

1.3 Examples of cultural conceptualisations

1.3.1 Event schemas

1.3.2 Role schemas

1.3.3 Image schemas

1.3.4 Proposition-schemas

1.3.5 Emotion schemas

1.4 Instantiation of cultural conceptualisations

1.5 Identifying cultural conceptualisations

1.5.1 Example: The Dreamtime

1.6 Concluding remarks

2. Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language

2.1 The locus of cultural cognition

2.2 Emergent cultural cognition

2.3 Emergent cultural cognition as a complex adaptive system

2.4 Cultural conceptualisations: Cultural models, categories and schemas

2.5 Emergent cultural cognition and language

2.6 Concluding remarks

3. On collective cognition and language

3.1 Cultural cognition as a complex adaptive system

3.2 Cultural cognition and cultural conceptualisations

3.3 Cultural conceptualisations and language

3.4 Concluding remarks

II. Case studies: Cultural conceptualisations in Aboriginal Languages

4. Aboriginal language habitat and cultural continuity

4.1 Cultural conceptualisations of kinship in Aboriginal languages

4.2 Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in English

4.2.1 Conceptualisations and categorisations of kinship in Aboriginal English

4.2.2 Aboriginal spiritual conceptualisations in Aboriginal English

4.2.3 Metaphor in Aboriginal English

4.3 Concluding remarks

5. Cultural conceptualisations in English words: A study of Aboriginal children in Perth.

5.1 Standard vs. 'non-standard' varieties: Underlying cultural models

5.2 Empirical investigation of Aboriginal cultural models

5.3 Methodology

5.3.1 Participants

5.3.2 Instrument

5.3.3 Procedure

5.4 The analysis of the data

5.5 Findings of the empirical investigation

5.6 Educational implications and concluding remarks

III. Intercultural communication

6. Cultural conceptualisations in intercultural communication

6.1 Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations

6.2 Concluding remarks

7. Cultural conceptualisations in English as an International Language (EIL)

7.1 EIL as a language of various cultural conceptualisations

7.2 The need for a revised model of communication

7.3 EIL and the notions of 'Language Proficiency', 'Native Speaker' and 'Teaching Model'

7.4 Concluding remarks

8. Cultural schemas and intercultural communication: A study of Persian

8.1 Persian language and culture

8.2 Sharmandegi (being ashamed)

8.2.1 Expressing gratitude

8.2.2 Offering goods and services

8.2.3 Requesting goods and services

8.2.4 Apologising

8.3 Concluding remarks

IV. Cross-cultural pragmatics

9. The Persian cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi

9.1 Cultural schemas and cross-cultural pragmatics

9.2 The cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi in Persian

9.3 Methodology

9.3.1 Participants

9.3.2 Instrument

9.3.3 Procedure

9.4 Data analysis

9.5 Analysis of the comments

9.6 Concluding remarks

Appendix

10. Semantic and pragmatic conceptualisations within an emerging variety: Persian English

10.1 Introduction

10.2 English in Iran and the emerging variety of Persian English

10.3 Cultural conceptualisations in Persian English

10.3.1 Âberu

10.3.2 Târof

10.3.3 Shakhsiat

10.4 Greeting in Persian English

10.5 Terms of address.

10.6 Conceptualisations of emotions in Persian English

10.7 Concluding remarks

V. Culture, body, self and language

11. Cultural conceptualisations of 'Self' and del 'heart/stomach' in Persian

11.1 Introduction

11.2 'Self' in Persian

11.3 Nafs 'self' in Sufism

11.4 del 'spiritual heart', ruh 'spirit', and serr 'inner consciousness' in Sufism

11.5 Conceptualisations of del 'heart' in Sufism

11.6 Conceptualisations of Sufi path in Persian literature

11.6.1 Del and conceptual metaphors

11.7 nafs and del in the model Persian language

11.7.1 Nafs

11.7.2 Del

11.7.3 Del as the seat of emotions/feelings and desires

11.7.4 Del as the source of compassion

11.7.5 Del as the source of desires

11.7.6 Del as the seat of 'intellect'

11.7.7 Del as 'stomach'/'abdomen'

11.7.8 Del as the centre of personality traits, character and mood

11.8 Concluding remarks

12. Conceptualisations of cheshm 'eye' and 'perception' in Persian

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Cheshm and conceptualisations of emotions in Persian

12.2.1 Cheshm as the seat of love

12.2.2 Cheshm as the seat of envy

12.2.3 Conceptualisations of negah 'look' in Persian

12.3 Cheshm and character traits

12.4 Other eye-related expressions

12.5 Thinking as seeing

12.6 Intuition as perception

12.7 Concluding remarks

VI. Political discourse

13. Figurative language in international political discourse: The case of Iran

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Figurative language: Literary or ordinary

13.3 Figurative language and politics

13.4 Figurative language in Iranian political discourse

13.4.1 "Israel should be wiped off the map"

13.4.2 To inflict US with "harm and pain"

13.4.3 US deserves a punch in the mouth

13.5 Concluding remarks

14. Politics and/of translation: Case studies between Persian and English.

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Concession and compromise

14.3 Jihad

14.4 Concluding remarks

Final words

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-00656-1

9786613006561

90-272-8718-X

OCLC:

710036938