Cultural Conceptualisations and Language

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Theoretical framework and applications

Farzad Sharifian(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 23. Februar 2011

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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

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