This book approaches cultural conceptualizations of our modern world from cultural, linguistic and cognitive perspectives. It explores broader topics such as contemporary society, media and entertainment, migration and identity, political discourse, educational contexts and creative linguistic innovation, all of which are seen as interwoven and mutually complementary segments of our present-day social world. This publication brings a fresh multi-cultural approach reflected in applying the principles of cultural linguistics to the analysis of different aspects of language use across four continents - Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The issue of shared cultural conceptualizations being their common denominator, the chapters of this book shed light on how various cultural groups use language to communicate their ideas and beliefs both within and outside their own culture, bearing in mind the often contradictory nature of the present-day social world that, at the same time, unites and disintegrates social groups. Benefiting scholars from fields within the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences who are interested in culture, discourse, linguistics, sociology, migration and politics, the book uncovers challenging new trends, inviting its readers to further explore the vast interconnected fields of language, culture and cognition in the turbulent 21st Century.

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Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is a habilitated associate professor of linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Faculty of Humanities, in Veszprém, Hungary. Her research focuses on language, conceptualization, and culture within the framework of cognitive semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Cultural Linguistics. The main fields of her investigation include body-part semantics, embodied cultural metaphors, and folk cultural metaphors. She has made notable contributions to the field of cultural-cognitive linguistics, with a monograph published by Springer, numerous papers, and various edited volumes to her credit.

Diana Prodanovic Stankic is a professor of linguistics at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research focuses on the interaction of language, culture, and cognition. She has authored four monographs and dozens of papers in the field of cognitive linguistics. Her latest monograph, Multimodal Humour at Play: A Cultural Linguistic Perspective (2023), deals with the application of cultural linguistics to multimodal and humorous discourse in translation and education.

Olga Panic Kavgic is an associate professor of linguistics at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her main research interests include pragmatics, contact and contrastive linguistics, cultural linguistics, translation studies, and grammar. She has so far published three monographs, over sixty papers in regional and international journals, conference proceedings and thematic issues, and co-authored two dictionaries. She did research at universities in Chicago, St. Petersburg, Oslo, and Innsbruck.