Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers global, comparative insights into the field. Diversity does not always imply differences, but it also offers insights into surprising similarities and parallels when it comes to expressions. By the same token, this collection shows that when we see that linguistic differences, when they exist, stem from not merely language, but from the cultural and historical context that cultivates and nurtures them. Within that paradigm, then, this handbook locates the importance of philosophy, religion (or even the lack thereof), political affiliations, and so on, in forming expressions. In addition, comparisons with other models of cultural linguistics are undertaken. These trends provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to issues in cultural linguistics, addressing the peculiarities of the field under the rubric of localized studies, and speaking to the possibilities that exist in interpretation of what metaphors are. The book highlights the complexities that are so tightly interwoven into the fabric of every word and a sentence, across cultures and linguistic traditions. A must-have collection for anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, philologists, theoreticians, rhetoricians, and scholars of poetics, this is the one-stop reference in cultural linguistics.

A comprehensive collection on cultural linguistics by leading international scholars in the field Appeals to anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, philologists, rhetoricians, and scholars of cultural poetics Introduces and expands upon this relatively new field by showing its numerous dimensions, linguistically

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Alireza Korangy received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His field of research is classical Persian and Arabic philology with a special emphasis on poetics, rhetoric, folklore and linguistics. He has done extensive research and published on Iranian and Persian linguistics. He has also published on Iranian folkloric traditions. Dr Korangy currently teaches in the Faculty of Humanities and Civilization Studies at the American University in Beirut. He has previously taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado, and Harvard University.

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Cultural conceptualization of keqi in intercultural communication: A case study of self and addressee references in Mandarin Chinese.- Visual Metaphors in News Cartoons on Targeted Poverty Alleviation.- Language, environment, and cultural conceptualization: serial verbs and plausible events in Tariana from north-west Amazonia.- Pirahã and the language faculty: cultural conceptualizations in the discourses of linguistics.- Narrative Knowledging through 'Words' of Aboriginal Languages: a Cultural Linguistics Approach.- A Cultural Linguistic analysis of eulogistic idioms for soldiers and scholars in Taiwan.- Grief and sadness in Polish and English cultural cognitive linguistic profiles.- Falling into Sevdah - Cultural Conceptualizations in Bosnian Folk Songs.- Land as kin: Yanyuwa conceptualizations of country.- Maintenance of Identity in an Adopted Language: Development and Use of Aboriginal English.- Cultural Conceptualizations of Power in Serbian and English.- To shave or not to shave? Cultural conceptualizations of hair in Hungarian language and culture. Natural Semantic Metalanguage versus Polish Ethnolinguistics School. A comparative approach to Anna Wierzbicka's and Jerzy Bartmiski's view on linguistic meaning.- Decoding cultural conceptualizations of 'han/hèn' and 'jeong/qíng' in Korean and Chinese.- Swahili pragmatic schemas as reflection of cultural conceptualizations and social values. The Cultural Linguistics perspective on the conceptualization of clothes in English and Italian. Verbal irony: Cultural conceptualizations and their figurative expression.- Japanese English Wordplay Neologisms for Fans' Economic and Emotional Offerings in Live Streamed Broadcasting.Identity Construction in American Presidential Speeches.- CulturalConceptualizationsofAnimalsinAncientPersianLiteratureandMyths.- Learnability of Formulaic Expressions: A Developmental Pragmatic Perspective.- Cultural Conceptualizations of PRIDE in Persian.- Urban Hijazi Kafhala: Saudi Cultural Pragmatic Schema.- ) The conceptualization and Use of Oath in Persian Films and TV Dramas: A Cultural Linguistic Perspective.- Online Input-Providing and Output-Pushing Feedback: Impact on EFL Learners' Acquisition of Politeness Markers.- Metapragmatics of maze (taste) in Persian.- Cultural conceptualizations of filiality in Singapore, Malaysian and Hong Kong Englishes.- Effat and Qeyrat: the study of two emotion schemas from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics.- Investigating Shape-based Categorization and Metaphorical Extensions of Chinese ClassifierA Cultural Linguistic Perspective.- Emotions in crime news.- Preservation of heritage cultures and languages of immigrant communities in Australia.- False Friends-words in Persian & Mzandarni.- Pain expression: A comparative study of English and Persian.- Time in Persian: Worldview metaphors.- Dissecting the stomach of a crocodile in public: Discourses and counter discourses of contemporary Ghanaian ethos on female sexual behavior.- Language and Thinking.- On the need for an applied science of cognitive linguistics.- SHARMANDEGI - or when Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Cultural Linguistics DO come together.- Cultural Linguistics Online: Exploring the Cultural Categories of a Notorious Online Community.- Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural misunderstandings around the concept of 'hell.- Pragmatics of Cultural Linguistics: Some notes.The scope of a metaphor in historical perspective.- Cultural Linguistics: Some disciplinary and terminological considerations.- Sociocultural Norms and Learners' Cognition: Corrective Feedback on Pronunciation Errors.- Cultural Linguistics in dialogue.- Coding and Culture: Addressing Transcultural Academic Writing.- People as 'open' and 'closed' containers: breaking down cultural conceptualizations in embodied interaction.- Cultural metaphor and inter-cultural identities.- Cultural schemas and the socio-moral order.- Characteristic Cultural Linguistics In Digital Communication.- Metaphor and Culture in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory.- Linguistic Form and Text Type.- Communicating through similes in a medical pain culture.