Cultural Linguistics

Sharifian, Farzad

doi:10.1075/clscc.8

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“…Cultural Linguistics is a recently developed discipline by Sharifian (2011a) that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. Cultural Linguistics theoretically centers cultural cognition, which involves the notions of "cognition" and "culture" implicitly relevant to language (Sharifian, 2017a). Cultural cognition is a "group-level collective cognition that […]emerges from the interactions between the members of a cultural group across time and space" (Sharifian, 2011b: 35).…”

Section: Cultural Linguistics Approach To Elt Curriculum Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cultural Linguistics has been applied to a growing number of research topics including religion (Lu, 2017;Sharifian, 2017b), world Englishes (e.g., Degani, 2017;Malcolm, 2017;Wolf, 2017), political discourse F I G U R E 1 The analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics. Reprinted from Sharifian (2017a: 8) [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] (e.g., Ansah, 2017;Musolff, 2017), cross-cultural pragmatics (e.g., Sharifian, 2005;Wilson & Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, 2017), intercultural communication (Sharifian, 2010), culture, body, self, and language (e.g., Bagasheva, 2017;Sharifian, 2011b), teaching English as an international language (Xu, 2017), and English language teaching curriculum (Dinh & Sharifian, 2017) which is in line with the domain of the current study.…”

Section: Cultural Conceptualisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a central aspect of cultural cognition, language functions as a “ collective memory bank ” (Sharifian, 2011a: 39) for cultural conceptualisations that have prevailed across generations in speech community. In cultural cognition, the process of conceptualisations consists of schematising and categorising, and the collective term of cultural conceptualisations includes the notions of “cultural schema,” “cultural category,” and “cultural metaphor.” “Cultural schemas (and subschemas) capture beliefs, norms, rules, and expectations of behavior as well as values relating to various aspects and components of experience” (Sharifian, 2017a: 7). There are various types of schemas such as event schemas, role schemas, emotion schemas, image schemas, and proposition schemas (Sharifian, 2011a).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cultural Linguistics and ELT curriculum: The case of ‘Prospect’ English textbooks in Iran

Juybari

Bozorgian

2020

Int J App Linguistics

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This study examines Iranian English language teaching (ELT) Prospect textbooks in light of the recently developed discipline of Cultural Linguistics. Cultural Linguistics is a field of research that explores the relation between language and cultural conceptualisations. The Cultural Linguistics ethnographic-conceptual text/visual analysis methodology is employed for the analysis of the cultural conceptualisations embedded across texts and visuals. It is revealed that lesson 3 of Prospect 3 captures the Iranian cultural conceptualisations of Nowruz and represents it as an event for (a) renewal of human beings and reinforcement of human relationships, (b) joy, (c) wishing good luck and avoiding bad luck, and (d) visiting. The current research has significant implications for both research and pedagogy in ELT.

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Section: Cultural Linguistics Approach To Elt Curriculum Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultural Conceptualisationsmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Cultural Linguistics and ELT curriculum: The case of ‘Prospect’ English textbooks in Iran

Juybari

Bozorgian

2020

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“…Stereotypes appear as results of categorisation, which is based on a universal human ability to save on cognitive resources. Natural languages not only instantiate but also encode culturally constructed categories encompassing the whole range of human experience (Sharifian, 2017).…”

Section: Introduction and Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associative Experiment in the Study of Sociocultural Stereotype

Lyubymova

2020

StALan

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As complex phenomena of social and cultural experience, sociocultural stereotypes manifest in behavioural, material and verbal spheres. Notable advances in the study of various aspects of sociocultural stereotypes in humanities have not eliminated the necessity of their study in research paradigm of cognitive-linguistics that incorporates psycholinguistic methods within interpretative framework. An in-depth study of sociocultural stereotypes requires rigorous empirical investigation of language evidence received from competent speakers in experimental situations. The experimental work provides a high level of empirical accuracy to verify emotional evaluation and pragmatic presuppositions conveyed by sociocultural stereotypes. The aim of this study was to unveil the meaning of a sociocultural stereotype flapper in contemporary culture and to model its cognitive structure on results of associative experiment. This sociocultural stereotype was chosen for its importance in changing standards of women behaviour in modern American culture. Flappers were young and daring American women, whose look and behaviour were criticised rigorously by traditionalists. An associative experiment conducted in the Lock Heaven College of Pennsylvania University showed the stereotype of flappers, though emerged in 1920s, still exists in national consciousness as a stereotypical image and a symbol of the epoch. The work contributes to the methodology of systematising experimental data in cognitive-linguistic research.

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“…enterprise as proposed by Farzad Sharifian (most recently, 2017b) and pursued by a number of scholars to various "degrees of separation" in Sharifian (2017a). If the place of cultural models can be more precisely established within the larger set of constructs that embraces cultural categories, cultural schemas, and cultural metaphors, the framework of Cultural Linguistics would gain an extra level of coherence and reliability.…”

Section: Micro-focus: Host-immigrant Positive Tensionmentioning

confidence: 99%