Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents a comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. Now in its second edition, it has been fully revised to provide a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies in this research area.
This new edition addresses the relationship between language and culture from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. Organized into four parts, it covers major research traditions in the field, key theoretical approaches and concepts, methods and core topics in the study of the link between language and culture, and directions in applied domains, and brings together 36 carefully commissioned chapters. These cover topical areas including cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics, while tracing their historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice. Building on Farzad Sharifian's legacy, editors Wolf and Polzenhagen guide readers through emerging directions in the field, demonstrating how language and culture research can benefit applied areas such as intercultural communication, higher education, and translation.
Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture 2e provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.
Contents
Introduction, overview, and outlook
1 Language and culture: introduction to the Handbook
Farzad Sharifian, Hans-Georg Wolf, and Frank Polzenhagen
2 The future agenda for research on language and culture
Roslyn M. Frank
PART 1: The study of language and culture: the wider framework
3 Precursors and historical background
John Leavitt
4 Cognitive anthropology
Claudia Strauss
5 Cultural semiotics
Peeter Torop
6 Sociolinguistics and contact linguistics
Part A: Sociolinguistics
Meredith Marra
Part B: Contact linguistics
Anna Finzel
7 Ethnopragmatics
Cliff Goddard, Anna Gladkova, and Zhengdao Ye
8 Context in intercultural pragmatics
Istvan Kecskes
9 Cultural Linguistics
Part A: Overview
Farzad Sharifian
Part B: Recent developments
Hans‑Georg Wolf and Frank Polzenhagen
10 Methods in the study of language and culture
Alexander Onysko and Marcus Callies
PART 2: The study of language and culture: key domains of analysis
11 Language, culture, and identity
Sandra R. Schecter
12 Language, culture, and gender
Lidia Tanaka
13 Language, culture, and politeness
Sara Mills
14 Language, culture, and interaction
Peter Eglin
15 Language, culture, and discourse
Andrew P. Carlin and Ricardo Moutinho
16 Language and subcultures
Heiko Motschenbacher
17 Language, culture, and linguistic prehistory
Patrick McConvell
18 Language, culture, and kinship systems
David B. Kronenfeld
19 Language, culture, and colour categorization
Don Dedrick
20 Language, culture, and emotion concepts
Jean‑Marc Dewaele
PART 3: Language, culture, and cognition
21 Language, culture, and embodiment
Ning Yu
22 Culture and language development
Laura Sterponi and Paul F. Lai
23 Culture and language processing
Dailyn Q. Clark and Jeanette Altarriba
24 Language and cultural scripts
Anna Wierzbicka
25 Language, culture, and metaphor
Zoltan Kovecses
26 Language, culture, and prototypicality
Frank Polzenhagen and Xiaoyan Xia
27 Language, culture, and spatial cognition
Penelope Brown
28 Language, culture, and space-time mapping
Chris Sinha and Enrique Bernárdez
PART 4: Language and culture in applied domains
29 Language, culture, and intercultural communication
Hans-Georg Wolf
30 Language, culture, and world Englishes
Andy Kirkpatrick
31 Language, culture, and second dialect learning
Ian G. Malcolm
32 Language, culture, and higher education
Sami Alhasnawi
33 Language, culture, and second‑language writing
Dwight Atkinson
34 Language, culture, and translation
Nigel Armstrong
35 Language, culture, and the workplace
Milene Oliveira
36 Language, culture, and gesture
Ulrike Schröder and Jurgen Streeck
