The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture
2nd Edition
Published on 18. March 2026
Book
Hardback
600 pages
978-1-032-41418-8 (ISBN)
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 of language and culture.
This new edition addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. Organised into eight sections -methods, language contact, sub-cultures, discourse, cultural models and metaphor, workplace, higher education, and gesture- it brings together thirty-five carefully commissioned chapters. These cover topical areas such as 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.
This new edition addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. Organised into eight sections -methods, language contact, sub-cultures, discourse, cultural models and metaphor, workplace, higher education, and gesture- it brings together thirty-five carefully commissioned chapters. These cover topical areas such as 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.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
9 s/w Tabellen, 12 s/w Abbildungen, 6 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 6 s/w Zeichnungen
9 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1197 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-41418-8 (9781032414188)
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Hans-Georg Wolf | Frank Polzenhagen
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture
E-Book
03/2026
2nd Edition
Routledge
€324.99
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Hans-Georg Wolf | Frank Polzenhagen
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture
E-Book
03/2026
2nd Edition
Routledge
€324.99
Available for download
Previous edition
Farzad Sharifian
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture
Book
12/2014
1st Edition
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Persons
Hans-Georg Wolf holds the chair of Development and Variation of the English Language at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He is co-editor of a series on cognitive linguistic studies and serves on the editorial board of several journals focused on language and culture, as well as World Englishes.
Frank Polzenhagen is professor for English Linguistics at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany. His research and writing focus on language and culture, and he is a member of the editorial board of various journals and book series in cognitive linguistic studies.
Farzad Sharifian was Professor within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, and the Director of Language and Society Centre at Monash University, Australia.
Frank Polzenhagen is professor for English Linguistics at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany. His research and writing focus on language and culture, and he is a member of the editorial board of various journals and book series in cognitive linguistic studies.
Farzad Sharifian was Professor within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, and the Director of Language and Society Centre at Monash University, Australia.
Content
1. Introduction to the Handbook, Farzad Sharifian, Hans-Georg Wolf, 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, Meredith Marra (Part A), Anna Finzel (Part B) 7. Ethnopragmatics, Cliff Goddard, Anna Gladkova, Zhengdao Ye 8. Context in Intercultural Pragmatics, Istvan Kecskes 9. Cultural Linguistics, Farzad Sharifian (Part A), Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen (Part B) 10. Methods in the Study of Language and Culture, Alexander Onysko, 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, 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, Paul F. Lai 23. Culture and Language Processing, Dailyn Q. Clark, Jeanette Altarriba 24. Language and Cultural Scripts, Anna Wierzbicka 25. Language, Culture, and Metaphor, Zoltan Koevecses 26. Language, Culture, and Prototypicality, Frank Polzenhagen, Xiaoyan Xia 27. Language, Culture, and Spatial Cognition, Penelope Brown 28. Language, Culture, and Space-Time Mapping, Chris Sinha, Enrique Bernardez 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 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 Mendes de Oliveira 36. Language, Culture, and Gesture, Ulrike Schroeder, Juergen Streeck