Cultural-linguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society / edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latic, Anna Finzel.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Wolf, Hans-Georg, 1963- editor.

Latić, Denisa, editor.

Finzel, Anna, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Conference Name:

International L.A.U.D.-Symposium (38th : 2018 : Landau, Germany)

Cultural Linguistics International Conference (2nd 2018 : Landau, Germany)

Series:

Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ; volume 14.

Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts, 18798047 ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture--Congresses.

Language and culture.

Intercultural communication--Congresses.

Intercultural communication.

Cognitive grammar--Congresses.

Cognitive grammar.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

References

Section I. Cultural-linguistic explorations into religion, spirituality, and the supernatural

Cultural linguistics and religion

1. Cultural linguistics

2. Background

3. Conceptualizations relating to Sufi life

4. Conceptualizations relating to death in Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms

5. Conceptualizations relating to Sacred Sites in Aboriginal English

5.1 Aboriginal English

5.2 Sacredness in Aboriginal English

6. Concluding remarks

Lexical evidence for ancestral communication in Black South African English

1. Introduction

2. Data and method

3. Herbalist advertisements and representations of ancestors

4. Ancestors in sub-Saharan and South Africa

5. The communicative dimension: Traditional healers as mediators

6. 'Throwing bones' as a ritualized communicative act

7. Conceptualizations of ancestral communication

8. Conclusion

References

Cultural conceptualizations of magical practices related to menstrual blood in a transhistorical and transcontinental perspective

Prologue

2. Spiritualistic conceptualizations of blood and their geographical, temporal, and cultural distribution

3. Menstrual blood and its conceptualizations

3.1 Conceptualizations of menstrual blood as a charm

3.2 Menstrual blood as a love charm

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

Section II. Cultural-linguistic explorations into emotion concepts

Conceptualizing SHAME in Old Romanian: A cultural and historical-semantic analysis

1. Preliminaries

2. Theoretical framework

3. Shame

definition, description, and typology

3.1 Psychological, anthropological, and sociological perspective

3.2 Linguistic perspective

4. Conceptualization and lexicalization of shame in Old Romanian

4.1 Prototypical shame

4.2 Contiguous / hybrid shame

4.3 Positive (honorable) shame

shyness/modesty/pudor

5. Final remarks

Corpus (16th-18th centuries)

Cultural conceptualizations of xejâlat and kamruyi: Two sharm -related emotion categories in Persian

2. Cultural linguistics

3. Cultural Linguistics and emotion research

4. Data and methodology

5. Results

5.1 Xejâlat as an emotion category

5.2 Cultural metaphors

5.3 ru-dar-bâyesti as a shame-related cultural schema

5.4 âberu as a shame-related cultural schema

6. Conclusion

Appendix 1. Narrative questionnaire (English version)

Appendix 2. Reflective questionnaire (English version)

Notes:

Papers presented at the jointly held 38th Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg (LAUD) conference and the 2nd Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC) that took place in August, 2018, in Landau Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Cultural-linguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society

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9027259704

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40030692384

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