Sharifian - The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

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.

Farzad Sharifian is a Professor within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, and the Director of Language and Society Centre at Monash University, Australia.

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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Edited by Farzad Sharifian

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The Routledge Handbook of language and culture / edited by Farzad Sharifian.

1. Language and culture--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Linguistics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

I. Sharifian, Farzad, editor.

P35.R68 2014

306.44--dc23

2014016038

ISBN: 978-0-415-52701-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-79399-3 (ebk)

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CONTENTS

PART I
Overview and historical background

Farzad Sharifian

John Leavitt

PART II
Ethnolinguistics

Anna Gladkova

John Leavitt

Cliff Goddard, with Zhengdao Ye

PART III
Studies of language and culture

Karen Risager

Lidia Tanaka

Istvan Kecskes

Sara Mills

Peter Eglin

David B. Kronenfeld

Peeter Torop

Nigel Armstrong

Sandra R. Schecter

Patrick McConvell

PART IV
Language, culture, and cognition

Ning Yu

Crystal J. Robinson and Jeanette Altarriba

Frank Polzenhagen and Xiaoyan Xia

Don Dedrick

Penelope Brown

Chris Sinha and Enrique Bernrdez

Laura Sterponi and Paul F. Lai

Anna Wierzbicka

Jean-Marc Dewaele

PART V
Research on language and culture in related disciplines/sub-disciplines

Meredith Marra

Claudia Strauss

PART VI
Language and culture in applied domains

Claire Kramsch

Dwight Atkinson

Ian G. Malcolm

Hans-Georg Wolf

Andy Kirkpatrick

PART VII
Cultural linguistics: past, present, and future directions

Farzad Sharifian

Roslyn M. Frank

Figures

Tables

Jeanette Altarriba is a professor of psychology and Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York, as well as the Director of the Cognition and Language Laboratory at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include psychology of language, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, knowledge representation, eye movements and reading, concept and category formation, and cognition and emotion.

Dwight Atkinson is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. His primary research interests are second language writing, second language acquisition, qualitative research methods, theories of culture, and English language education in the lives of first-generation learners in India. Recent publications include articles in TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching, Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition (Routledge), and the edited volume, Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (Routledge).

Nigel Armstrong is senior lecturer in French at the University of Leeds, UK. His current teaching and research focus on two related subject areas: sociolinguistic variation in contemporary spoken French; and the study, from a translation perspective, of how language is used in popular culture. Previous publications include Translation, Linguistics, Culture and (with Ian Mackenzie) Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics.

Enrique Bernrdez is Professor of Linguistics at the Complutense University, Madrid. His main areas of research are the relations between language and culture, cognitive linguistics, Modern Icelandic, and Amerindian languages. He has published several books, among them: Introduccin a la Lingstica del Texto (Madrid, 1982); Qu son las lenguas? (1999, 2004); El lenguaje como cultura (2008).

Penelope Brown is a linguistic anthropologist affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. She has worked for many years in the Mexican Tzeltal Maya community of Tenejapa, focusing on the study of adult language use in its sociocultural context and on Tzeltal child language acquisition and socialization.