Cultural Linguistics: The Development of a Multidisciplinary Paradigm

• 作者: Farzad Sharifian
• 来源期刊: 语言与符号学研究
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2015,（1）
• 页码范围: 1-26
• 页数: 26页
• 分类号: H0-05

摘要

Cultural Linguistics is a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. It offers both a theoretical framework and an analytical framework for examining features of languages that are entrenched in cultural conceptualisations, including cultural schemas, cultural categories, and cultural metaphors. In recent years, Cultural Linguistics has drawn on several disciplines and sub-disciplines, such as complexity science and distributed cognition, to enrich its theoretical basis, particularly the notion of cultural cognition. Applications of Cultural Linguistics have enabled fruitful investigations of the cultural grounding of language in several applied domains such as World Englishes, intercultural communication, and political discourse analysis. This paper elaborates on these observations and provides illustrative examples of linguistic research from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics.