The Cultural Semantics Of Address Practices

Author : Gian Marco Farese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498579285

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The Cultural Semantics of Address Practices by Gian Marco Farese Pdf

This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from the perspective of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture in discourse. The objects of the analysis are the interactional meanings expressed by different forms of address in these two languages, which are compared adopting the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. The forms analyzed include greetings, titles and opening and closing salutations used in letters and e-mails in the two languages. Noticeably, the book presents the first complete categorization of Italian titles used as forms of address ever made on the basis of precise semantic criteria. The analysis also investigates the different cultural values and assumptions underlying address practices in English and Italian, and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by different address practices in intercultural interactions. Every chapter presents numerous examples taken from language corpora, contemporary English and Italian literature and personal e-mails and letters. The book encourages a new, innovative approach to the analysis of forms of address: it proposes a new analytical method for the analysis of forms of address which can be applied to the study of other languages systematically. In addition, the book emphasizes the role of culture in address practices and takes meaning as the basis for understanding the differences in use across languages and the difficulties in translating forms of address of different languages. Combining semantics, ethnopragmatics, intercultural communication and translation theory, this book is aimed at a very broad readership which includes not only scholars in linguistics, second-language learners and students of cross-cultural communication, but virtually anyone interested in Italian and English linguistics as well as in cultural semantics. The approach taken is interdisciplinary and brings together various fields in the social sciences: linguistics, anthropology, cross-cultural studies and sociology.

Author : Kerry Mullan,Bert Peeters,Lauren Sadow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Bert Peeters,Kerry Mullan,Lauren Sadow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111337432

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Postcolonial Semantics by Carsten Levisen Pdf

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110220964

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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics by Anna Wierzbicka Pdf

This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people - refugees, immigrants, crosscultural families, and so on. By contrast to such approaches, which can be of no use in crosscultural communication and education, this book is both theoretical and practical: it shows that in different societies, norms of human interaction are different and reflect different cultural attitudes and values; and it offers a framework within which different cultural norms and different ways of speaking can be effectively explored, explained, and taught. The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be described and compared in a way that is clear, simple, rigorous, and free of ethnocentric bias by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human concepts. As the book shows, this metalanguage can be used as a basis for teaching successful cross-cultural communication and education, including the teaching of languages in a cultural context.

Author : Cliff Goddard,Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668434

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Words and Meanings by Cliff Goddard,Anna Wierzbicka Pdf

This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.

Author : Nicole Baumgarten,Roel Vismans
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249692

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It's different with you by Nicole Baumgarten,Roel Vismans Pdf

This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical contexts and time – in more than 15 languages. The volume showcases the variety of approaches that exists in current address research, including the breadth of contrastive methodologies harnessing surveys and questionnaires, focus group discussions, corpus linguistics, discourse and conversation analysis to offer complementary perspectives on culture-specific address practice. This volume is for students and researchers of address and social interaction in a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including various sub-disciplines of linguistics (such as contrastive, variational and intercultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and morphology) and intercultural communication, as well as experts in individual languages and qualitative sociologists.

Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110294651

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Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition by Carsten Levisen Pdf

Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, ‘pleasant togetherness’), the book provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in ways suggested by central Danish keywords and lexical grids. By means of a sophisticated semantic methodology, the author accounts for the meanings of even highly culture-specific and untranslatable linguistic concepts. The book offers new tools for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. Additionally, it contributes to the emerging discipline of cultural semantics, and to the ongoing debates of linguistic diversity, metalanguage, and the use of linguistic evidence in studies of culture and social cognition.

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Carsten Levisen,Sophia Waters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265470

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Cultural Keywords in Discourse by Carsten Levisen,Sophia Waters Pdf

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book contributes to a global turn in cultural keyword studies by exploring keywords from discourse communities in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Melanesia, Mexico and Scandinavia. Providing new case studies, the volume showcases the diversity of ways in which cultural logics form and shape discourse. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach is used as a unifying framework for the studies. This approach offers an attractive methodology for doing explorative discourse analysis on emic and culturally-sensitive grounds. Cultural Keywords in Discourse will be of interest to researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, cultural discourse studies, linguistic ethnography and intercultural communication.

Author : Ming ZHAO
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004535183

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Cultural Semantics in the Lexicon of Modern Chinese by Ming ZHAO Pdf

What is cultural semantics? How to define and analyze it in the lexicon of modern Chinese? This book outlines the development and research results of cultural semantic theory, and then proposes the distinction between two types of cultural semantics at the synchronic level: conceptual gap items and items with a cultural meaning. It provides criteria for identifying these items by using detailed examples from theory and application. Finally, the two types of cultural semantics are applied to the case of modern Chinese. The criteria proposed for determining the Chinese cultural semantics apply not only to this, but also to other languages. Therefore, this book offers an operational basis for further studies of cultural semantics in academia.

Author : Michael G. Clyne,Catrin Norrby,Jane Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521870627

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Language and Human Relations by Michael G. Clyne,Catrin Norrby,Jane Warren Pdf

Exploring practices in the family, school, the workplace, this book investigates the varied ways people choose to address one another.

Author : Frans H. Van Eemeren,Peter Houtlosser
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902721882X

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Argumentation in Practice by Frans H. Van Eemeren,Peter Houtlosser Pdf

Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline. After having first been primarily concerned with creating an adequate philosophical perspective on argumentation, argumentation theorists have gradually shifted their focus of attention to a more immediate concern with the ins and outs of argumentative praxis. What exactly are the characteristics of situated argumentative discourse in different argumentative 'action types'? How is the discourse influenced by institutional and contextual constraints? In what way can prominent cases of argumentative discourse be fruitfully analysed? Argumentation in Practice aims to provide insight into some important facets of argumentative praxis and the different ways in which it can be approached. The first part of this volume, 'Conceptions of problems in argumentative practice', introduces useful theoretical perspectives. The second part, 'Empirical studies of argumentative practice', contains both empirical studies of a general kind and several types of specific case studies.

Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110294664

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Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition by Carsten Levisen Pdf

Words do not emerge in a cultural vacuum. They are revealing of speakers' values, cognitive preferences and social practices. With an engaging study of Danish cultural keywords, this book offers a new framework for understanding language-particular universes of meaning and lays the ground for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. The book is of compelling interest to anyone interested in language and cultural values, as well as for students and scholars in Scandinavian and European studies.

Author : Farzad Sharifian,Gary B. Palmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027238944

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

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