Skandera Phraseology and Culture in English

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019786-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 54, 520 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN

The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values.

The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combinations in English. The 17 papers of the volume are divided into four sections, focusing on particular lexemes (e.g. and its collocates), types of word combinations (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). The sections are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the threads laid out in the various papers.

The relation between language and culture in general has been explored in a number of important works over the past ten years. However, the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture in particular has been largely neglected. This volume is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to this topic.

Zielgruppe

Students and Scholars of English Studies and Cultural Studies; Va

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skandera, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view;13
4;Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings;59
5;Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere;89
6;Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun;119
7;Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian;147
8;Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what’s in them and what’s not (with a note on current “gendered” proverbs);191
9;Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England;215
10;Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English;245
11;Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse;267
12;Lexical developments in greenspeaking;285
13;The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction;313
14;Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages;333
15;Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance?;363
16;Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cultural expression in an adopted language;385
17;Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English;409
18;Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles;447
19;Formulaic language in cultural perspective;481
20;Backmatter;507

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Skandera, Management Center Innsbruck, Austria.