Understanding Culture through Language and Literature
Understanding Culture through Language and Literature

Author: Erdem Erinç

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-12-17

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1527523705

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Within its wide boundaries, culture creates written and visual reflection areas for itself. As the reflection area expands through time, space and nature, it becomes richer, and, in doing so, it needs to be appreciated. The cultural reflection of historical accumulation leaves us in front of an immense mirror. In general terms, this book presents the reader with the intertwined relationships between culture and literature, culture and language, and culture and history or art history. More specifically, it investigates the joy of a birth, a funeral ritual, the merriness of a melody, and the taste of a meal as they are reflected within the texts that Asia has accumulated throughout its history. Its central concern is the investigation of issues related to culture and how it is reflected in literature, language, or history in a particular place.

Linguistics, Literature and Culture
Linguistics, Literature and Culture

Author: Shakila Abdul Manan

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1443843962

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This book documents the changing realities in the fields of linguistics, literature and culture in Asia, resulting from globalization, modernisation and rapid technological development. It consists of sixteen essays by academics and researchers around the world, reflecting on the interface between the global and the local, and its impact on the local and regional languages, literatures and cultures of Asia. This scenario, which exemplifies language contact in action, is captured by the book mainly to demonstrate that linguistic negotiations, appropriations and indeed changes are not one-way. As such, their implications on language use, language choice, language policy and planning, literacy and pedagogy, identity, subjectivity and culture need to be closely examined. The uniqueness of this book lies in its attempt to showcase original research in a variety of multicultural settings. Its multi- and cross-disciplinary approach will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers from diverse backgrounds. This book will serve as a useful reference that is both scholarly and informative for researchers as well as academics in the fields of linguistics, literature and culture.

Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language
Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language

Author: Jakub Lipski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 3319740210

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This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of issues that are highly relevant in the context of the ongoing migration crisis. The contributors employ a diverse range of theoretical standpoints – from close reading to deconstruction, from historically informed approaches to linguistic analysis – and thus offer a nuanced panorama of these issues, especially from the nineteenth century onwards.

Challenges of Anglophone Language(s), Literatures and Cultures
Challenges of Anglophone Language(s), Literatures and Cultures

Author: Alena Kačmárová

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1443861472

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This book explores scholarly challenges within the fields of Anglophone language, literature, and culture. The section focusing on language details issues falling within two areas: namely, language contact and the language-culture relationship, and stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. The literature part investigates twentieth-century American, English, and Australian literature, dealing with both poetry and prose and discussing topics of identity, gender, metafiction, postmodern conditions, and other relevant theoretical issues in contemporary literature. The culture part treats theoretical approaches in cultural studies that are vital in today’s cultural context, especially in Central European universities, the Irish language and culture, and contemporary cultural phenomena inspired by the growing ubiquity of technological intrusions into various fields of cultural production.

Linguistic Foundations of Identity
Linguistic Foundations of Identity

Author: Om Prakash

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1000218007

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The collection of chapters in this book brings together researchers working in paradoxes and complexities of cultural identities through uses of language and literature from varied perspectives. This volume is an important step towards achieving the goal of reaching out to many who have been looking at the complexities of identity formation from linguistic, cultural, social and political perspectives. Please note: This title is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Studies in Philology
Studies in Philology

Author: Maria del Mar Jiménez-Cervantes Arnao

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-02-05

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 144387521X

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Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies are the three main research areas within Philology. Scientific production, such as conferences and journals, has tended towards specialization, and has been traditionally classified according to separate disciplines and languages. However, this volume offers a holistic view of the wide area of Philology, therefore allowing the permeability of the three areas mentioned above. As such, this book shows that the line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies is actually very thin. This volume is composed of a miscellanea of philological studies dealing with various trends in Modern Language research. It looks at three languages in particular: Spanish, English and French, with a special relevance to the first two.

Body Language in Literature
Body Language in Literature

Author: Barbara Korte

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780802076564

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An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language.

Linguistics and English Literature
Linguistics and English Literature

Author: H. D. Adamson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1107045401

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This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

Author: Farzad Sharifian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 1317743172

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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.

Language and Culture in the Intercultural World
Language and Culture in the Intercultural World

Author: Vesna Mikolič

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-12-09

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1527563421

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The intensification of contacts between cultures and languages has a major impact on all social spheres today. Multiculturalism and multilingualism are important elements of the local, regional, national and global community. Much of the world’s conflict stems from the contrast between globalization and nationalism, fuelled by religions, racial divisions, traditions and other cultural particularities. Focusing mainly on the situation in Central and South-eastern Europe, this book addresses how cultural identities develop through tourism, education, literature and other social fields, and how language and literature teaching should be planned in this context. It consists of the following sections: Language, Culture and Tourism; Interculturalism, Multilingualism and Approaches to Language Learning; and Culture in Literature and Translation. The volume will be of interest to teachers and researchers of cultural and tourism studies, linguistics and language learning, literary studies and translation, while also addressing wider readers interested in contemporary intercultural society.