Cultures, Narratives, and Concepts

Introduction.- Conceptualizing and Lexicalizing Pillars of Statehood: National Mottos Across Borders and Cultures.- The Construction of National "We" in Russian War-Related Political Discourse.- European Integration as a Wedding Ceremony - A critical metaphor analysis of Albania-EU relations.- A linguistic analysis of metaphorical euphemisms used in Dholuo HIV/AIDS discourse.- Conceptualization of Turner syndrome by Polish patients through the lens of the Illness Representation Model.- Sick Style Aesthetics. A cultural-linguistic perspective on a not so new microtrend.- The Stories Tell the Tale: Cultural Contact in Animal Narrative Discourse in the.- Indigenous Southeastern Unites States.- Navigating between the McDonaldization of media and Afriethics: On the cultural and ideological embedding of news discourse in East Africa.- Autobiographical Narratives and Political Appropriation. A case study of Educated by Tara Westover.- Transgression, (dis)othering and the Canadian (national) narrative - a reading of What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad.- Transcultural Feminism in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other.- Ethnocentrism in Literary Translation: Distorting Novelistic Prose through Rationalization.- The Motif of Religion in Charles Dickens: Translation Analysis of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield.- The Intersection of Literature, Culture and Gender Studies: Exploring Albanian Students' Perspectives.- Comparing the Tourism Attraction Cultures between Iran and Germany based on Hofstede Method.- AI trustworthiness and persuasive effects in users' judgment.