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- Title
Cultural Linguistics and world Englishes.
- Authors
SHARIFIAN, FARZAD
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Cultural Linguistics is a multidisciplinary field of research that explores how features of human languages and language varieties are entrenched in cultural conceptualisations such as cultural schemas (models), cultural categories, and cultural-conceptual metaphors. This paper presents an overview of the emerging field of Cultural Linguistics and argues, by presenting examples from several varieties of English, that world Englishes need to be examined from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics in order for us to gain a better understanding of how English is used by communities of speakers around the world to express their cultural conceptualisations, including their world views.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; culture; ENGLISH language in foreign countries; SCHEMAS (Psychology); METAPHOR -- Social aspects; AUSTRALIAN English language; ENGLISH language -- Social aspects; ABORIGINAL Australian languages; COGNITION -- Social aspects; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
World Englishes, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 4, p515
- ISSN
0883-2919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/weng.12156