Sharifian Farzad. Cultural Linguistics

Inaugural Professorial Lecture. - Melbourne: Monash University, 2011. - 10 p.The author dwells on a theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. ‘Cultural linguistics’ refers to an emerging multidisciplinary field of research that explores the relationship between language, conceptualisation, and culture. However, in a broad sense, the term captures all linguistic research that examines the relationship between language and culture. In this broad sense of the term, cultural linguistics attempts to understand language as a subsystem of culture and examine how various language features reflect and embody culture. ‘Culture’ here is meant in the anthropological sense; that is, as a system of collective beliefs, worldviews, customs, traditions, values and norms shared by the members of a cultural group.