Explorations in Applied Ethnolinguistics
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This volume contributes to the growing body of cutting-edge research into the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach in linguistics. It explores the broad range of possible applications enabled by the NSM approach, from linguistic studies of semantics and culture to cross-cultural studies, psychology and childhood education. The volume builds on previous studies, bringing a diversity of voices to this area, and covering sixteen languages. The volume celebrates the life and work of the late Bert Peeters, proponent and pioneer of the NSM approach in French. It comprises contributions from Peeters' close associates, as well as former and current students, to engage with salient aspects of his work and honour his influence on the field, including conceptualisation of the term 'applied ethnolinguistics'. The book is divided into four sections which reflect this diversity of applications and Peeters' work in the field: applications outside of linguistics, semantics inside and outside Europe, and cultural scripts. This book will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars and students in applied linguistics and related fields, with a particular interest for scholars in semantics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, (language) education, Minimal English, and NSM.
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Lauren Sadow is a Postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University in Denmark on the Velux Fonden project Danish in the Making which explores applications of the NSM approach and Minimal Languages to language teaching. She publishes in semantics, pragmatics, ethnopragmatics, language teaching, intercultural communication, education, lexicography, and health communication.
Kerry Mullan is Convenor of Languages at RMIT University, Australia where she teaches French language and culture and applied linguistics. Her main research interests are cross-cultural communication, intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, language teaching, and humour in French and Australian social interactions.
Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia. He is a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to semantics and its sister theory, the cultural scripts approach to pragmatics. He has published widely in descriptive and theoretical semantics, language description and typology, pragmatics and ethnopragmatics, and intercultural communication.
Content
Tribute to Bert PeetersLauren Sadow, Kerry Mullan & Cliff Goddard.- Part One: Introduction.- Chapter 1. An invitation to Applied Ethnolinguistics (Lauren Sadow, Kerry Mullan & Cliff Goddard).- Chapter 2. Language, culture, and values: six ways to see them more clearly (Bert Peeters, Lauren Sadow, Cliff Goddard & Kerry Mullan).- Chapter 3. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Underlying Philosophy and Basic Principles (Bert Peeters, Lauren Sadow, Cliff Goddard & Kerry Mullan).- Part Two: Doing things with simpler words.- Chapter 4. How to ask a clearer question (or, What questionnaires, surveys and rating scales can gain from a minimal language approach) (Cliff Goddard, Helen Bromhead, Ida Diget & Alena Kazmaly).- Chapter 5. Spanish explications of emotions for persons with autistism spectrum disorders (María Auxiliadora Barrios Rodríguez & Svetlana Antropova).- Chapter 6. "Solo/sola" and "Perso/persa" as recurrent words among Italian people with Depression: from pre-pandemic to pandemic situation (Maria Giulia Marini & Paola Chesi).- Chapter 7. Teaching children to read with NSM (Anna Wierzbicka & Lauren Sadow).- Chapter 8. Rendering 'The Story of God and People' into Minimal Russian: a translator's commentary (Anna Gladkova).- chapter 9. Hunting for invisible pearls: some issues of translating NSM primes into Czech (Marie Pavlásková).- Part Three: What's in a Word I: Europe and the Anglosphere.- Chapter 10. Axiologies of Speaking. Scandinavian Perspectives on Verbs of Verbality (Carsten Levisen).- Chapter 11. Leuk: a little word (in Dutch) of great meaning (Margo Lecompte-Van Poucke).- Chapter 12. 'Orange': a culturally significant Netherlands Dutch word (Felix Ameka & Froukje Krijtenburg).- Chapter 13. "A NORMAL LIFE" in French, English and Romanian: an ethno-semantic analysis at the crossroads of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (MSN) and the Semantics of Argumentative Possibilities (SAP) (Olga Galatanu).- Chapter 14. The ethnolinguistics of 'stranger' and 'acquaintance' in English (Zhengdao Ye).- Part Four: What's in a Word II: Outside Europe.- Chapter 15. Having fun is a matter of taste: 'funny' words in Persian and French (Reza Arab & Kerry Mullan).- Chapter 16. Mono no aware 'pathos of things': exploring a cultural key word of Japanese aesthetics (Yuko Asano-Cavanagh & Rob Cavanagh).- Chapter 17. Possibility, obligation and the impersonal construction in Amharic (Mengistu Amberber).- Chapter 18. Utterance particle combinations in Hong Kong Cantonese: a semantic analysis (Helen Leung).- Chapter 19. Talking about God in Mandarin Chinese (Rui Shen).- Chapter 20. Duibuqi, baoqian, buhaoyisi: saying 'sorry' in Chinese Mandarin (Javan Seow & Jock Wong).- Chapter 21. Unpacking the Akan interjection apuu: a natural semantic metalanguage approach (Rachel Thompson).- Part Five: Enacting and transmitting culture.- Chapter 22. The meaning of "table manners" in Australian English: a lexical semantic study of mealtime behaviour (Sophia Waters).- Chapter 23. Articulating the unwritten norms behind hugging, kissing, and shoulder touches between friends in Australia (Lauren Sadow).- Chapter 24. Home, fear and safety in French and English: linguistic transmission of cultural values in emergent children's literature (Séverine Didier).- Chapter 25. The conceptualisation of silence in oral cultures: cultural scripts from the Yoruba and Punjabi linguo-cultures (Lubna Akhlaq Khan).- Chapter 26. The ethnolinguistics of Christian death practices in Jish (northern Israel) (Sandy Habib).- List of publications by Bert Peeters.
