Ethnopragmatics

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110911114

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Ethnopragmatics by Cliff Goddard Pdf

The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.

Author : Kerry Mullan,Bert Peeters,Lauren Sadow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789813299832

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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication by Kerry Mullan,Bert Peeters,Lauren Sadow Pdf

This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Author : Lauren Sadow,Bert Peeters,Kerry Mullan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789813299795

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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication by Lauren Sadow,Bert Peeters,Kerry Mullan Pdf

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Author : Bert Peeters,Kerry Mullan,Lauren Sadow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789813299757

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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication by Bert Peeters,Kerry Mullan,Lauren Sadow Pdf

This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. It focuses on meaning and culture, with sections on "Words as Carriers of Cultural Meaning" and "Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context". Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317743187

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture by Farzad Sharifian Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. This Handbook features thirty-three newly commissioned chapters which cover key areas such as cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics offer insights into the historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice of each topic, and explore the potential future directions of the field show readers how language and culture research can be of practical benefit to applied areas of research and practice, such as intercultural communication and second language teaching and learning. Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.

Author : Alireza Korangy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819938001

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The Handbook of Cultural Linguistics by Alireza Korangy Pdf

Author : Maxim I. Stamenov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277947

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Current Advances in Semantic Theory by Maxim I. Stamenov Pdf

This volume contains selected contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium on 'Models of Meaning' held in Varna, September 25-28, 1988, under the auspices of the Institute of the Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to broaden the horizons of meaning research and the modeling of linguistic semantics, with contributions centering on the appropriate modeling of lexical, syntactic, and textual-semantic representations. The papers challenge some basic notions of semantics and reveal two main avenues of development in contemporary investigations. One is toward broadening the scope of investigativeness, the second is toward a greater domain-specificity as expressed in a greater sensitivity to pragmatics and meta-pragmatic concerns.

Author : Farzad Sharifian,Gary B. Palmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292704

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Applied Cultural Linguistics by Farzad Sharifian,Gary B. Palmer Pdf

Research in the relatively new field of cultural linguistics has implications for second language learning and intercultural communication. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together studies that examine the implications for applied programs of research in these domains. Collectively, the contributions explore the interrelationship between language, culture, and conceptualisations. Each study focuses on a different language-and-culture. The languages-cultures studied include Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, English, Aboriginal English and African English. The particular conceptual bases of the contributions range from theories of embodiment and conceptual metaphors to theories of schemas and cultural scripts. Several authors directly address the application of their observations to the fields of second language/dialect learning and intercultural communication, while others first present a theoretical analysis and then explore its practical implications. Collectively, the contributions establish a novel direction for research in applied linguistics.

Author : Gunter Senft,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289308

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Culture and Language Use by Gunter Senft,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the introduction, and as revealed in the choice of articles, ‘culture’ is by no means to be seen as standing in opposition to society and cognition; on the contrary, the notion cannot be understood without insight into the intricate interactions of social and cognitive structures and processes. In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology. Others highlight the role of eminent scholars who have made the study of cultural dimensions of language use into what it is today.

Author : Bert Peeters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230911

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Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar by Bert Peeters Pdf

This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka's groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) elaborated over the years by Wierzbicka and colleagues. Repetition is avoided through teamwork: a number of authors working on the languages under examination have had equal input in a set of five papers dealing with distinct parts of the metalanguage. Some of the findings presented here invite us to have a fresh look at what has already been achieved, and to amend some of the working hypotheses of the NSM approach accordingly. The volume also contains six case studies (on Italian sfogarsi, Portuguese saudades, Spanish crisis, French certes, Spanish expressions of sincerity and Italian and Spanish diminutives, respectively).

Author : Michel Achard,Susanne Niemeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110173574

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Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching by Michel Achard,Susanne Niemeier Pdf

This book shows that the notions developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy. The key concepts commonly invoked in cognitive analyses such as the usage-based conception of grammar, the radial organization of categories, metaphors, or cultural scripts, do not only represent powerful constructs within which the process of second language acquisition can be valuably investigated, but also allow teachers to successfully introduce problematic material in the foreign language classroom.

Author : Sambulo Ndlovu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110759297

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Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective by Sambulo Ndlovu Pdf

This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.

Author : David Adu-Amankwah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000082021118

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An Ethnopragmatic Study of Jokes and Joking in an Akan Community by David Adu-Amankwah Pdf

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004357723

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Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage by Cliff Goddard Pdf

These lively lectures introduce the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and non Anglocentic approach to cross-linguistic semantics. Topics include semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts, language teaching.

Author : N. J. Enfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191581793

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Ethnosyntax : Explorations in Grammar and Culture by N. J. Enfield Pdf

This book provides a fresh and original approach to the 'ethnosyntax' concept - the proposition that the grammar of a language is intimately linked to the culture of its speakers. It focuses on three related questions: how far culture accounts for linguistic variation; how culture and grammar are connected; and to what extent one may constitute the other. It looks, for example, at the ways in which grammatical (including semantic) resources may be constrained by social values, and at the possible sociocultural significance of grammatical devices. The chapters add up to an important and timely contribution to the renewed debate among linguists and anthropologists on the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition. The authors represent a wide range of research traditions, some of which have not until now explicitly addressed the grammar and culture issue. They consider the subject in the context of a wide range of cultures in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The clarity and accessibility of their writing, together with Dr Enfield's introduction to the field, make this not only a work or original value and impeccable scholarship, but an excellent modern textbook on a subject of enduring fascination in linguistics and anthropology.