[PDF] Cross Cultural Perspectives In Literature And Language eBook

Author : Iwona Filipczak
Publisher : Æ Academic Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1683461037

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Provides an international forum for the exchange of ideas related to multiculturalism; multi-ethicity; cross-cultural perspectives in literature, the arts, and politics; integration versus cultural shock; as well as racial, ethnic, and religious problems of the world in the 21st century. The editors hope that the articles selected for the volume will prove stimulating and inspiring to their readers, be they blooming researchers or specialists in Anglophone literature, culture, linguistics, and didactics. PART I. LITERATURE AND CULTURE PART II. LINGUISTICS AND METHODOLOGY LCCN: 2017962609

Author : Eija Suomela-Salmi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254370

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The goal of this volume is to examine academic discourse (AD) from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives. The adjective "Cross-cultural" in the volume title is not just limited to national contexts but also includes a cross-disciplinary perspective. Twelve scientific fields are under scrutiny in the articles. One of the unique aspects of the volume is the inclusion of a variety of foreign languages (English (as a lingua franca), Spanish, French, Swedish, Russian, German, Italian, and Norwegian). Besides, in several articles dealing with oral AD, comparisons and parallels are also established with written AD. The research methodologies used in the studies are varied and they offer an overview of the diversity and richness of approaches to AD. All in all, it is hoped that the volume appeals not only to young researchers but also to confirmed scholars interested in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of AD. It will also be of interest to language teachers or teachers who are involved with e.g. international students and academic mobility.

Author : Donal Carbaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317485599

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This handbook brings together 26 ethnographic research reports from around the world about communication. The studies explore 13 languages from 17 countries across 6 continents. Together, the studies examine, through cultural analyses, communication practices in cross-cultural perspective. In doing so, and as a global community of scholars, the studies explore the diversity in ways communication is understood around the world, examine specific cultural traditions in the study of communication, and thus inform readers about the range of ways communication is understood around the world. Some of the communication practices explored include complaining, hate speech, irreverence, respect, and uses of the mobile phone. The focus of the handbook, however, is dual in that it brings into view both communication as an academic discipline and its use to unveil culturally situated practices. By attending to communication in these ways, as a discipline and a specific practice, the handbook is focused on, and will be an authoritative resource for understanding communication in cross-cultural perspective. Designed at the nexus of various intellectual traditions such as the ethnography of communication, linguistic ethnography, and cultural approaches to discourse, the handbook employs, then, a general approach which, when used, understands communication in its particular cultural scenes and communities.

Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859914758

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In virtually all the literary traditions of the world there are works of verbal art that depend for part of their effect on the juxtaposition of prose and verse. This volume takes the first step towards a comparative study of prosimetrum', the mixture of prose and verse, with essays by leading linguists and literary scholars of a selection of prosimetrical traditions. The nature of what constitutes verse or prose is one underlying question addressed. An outline of historical developments emerges, especially for Europe and the Near East, with articles on classical, medieval and nineteenth-century literatures. Oriental prosimetrical literatures discussed include that of Vedic India and the old literary cultures of China and Japan; also represented are oral and oral-derived folk literatures of recent centuries in Africa, the West, and Inner Asia.(This volume takes the first step towards a comparative study of prosimetrum', the mixture of prose and verse, in a wide range of literarycultures. An outline of historical developments emerges, especially for Europe and the Near East, with articles on classical, medieval and nineteenth-century literatures. Oriental prosimetrical literatures discussed include that of Vedic India and the old literary cultures of China and Japan; also represented are oral and oral-derived folk literatures of recent centuries in Africa, the West, and Inner Asia.) Professor KARL REICHLteaches in the English Department at the University of Bonn; Professor JOSEPH HARRIS teaches in the English Department at Harvard University. Contributors: KRISTIN HANSON, PAUL KIPARSKY, JAN ZIOLKOWSKI, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, PROINSIAS Mac CANA, JOSEPH HARRIS, JUDITH RYAN, W.F.H. NICOLAISEN, LEE HARING, STEVEN WEITZMAN, WOLFHART HEINRICHS, DWIGHT REYNOLDS, JULIE SCOTT MEISAMI, KARL REICHL, WALTHER HEISSIG

Author : F. Büşra Süverdem
Publisher : Synergy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9783631882221

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Linguistics: Cross-Cultural Perspectives mainly focuses on cross-cultural aspects of language covering a wide range of topics such as cross-cultural interaction, critical discourse analysis, second language acquisition, comparative linguistics, intercultural pragmatics, morphology, and corpus linguistics.

Author : A. Buttimer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401723923

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Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise nature appear in the context of global environmental change. Understanding across cultural lines has never been more important. This book shows how individual cultures see their own histories as offering protection for nature, while often viewing others as lacking such ethical restraints. Through such writing a discourse of understanding and common action becomes possible. The authors come from the places they discuss, and offer passionate as well as scholarly visions of nature within their cultural homes. Audience: This volume is of interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of cultural geography, environmental history, environmental studies, history of environmental ideas, environmental education, landscape and literature, nature and culture. It can be used for courses in the above-mentioned areas and seminars in comparative literature. It can also be used as a complimentary text to provide cultural context to literary readings, and for seminars on cultural aspects of the environment.

Author : Kenneth D. Keith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1444351796

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This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, from introduction and research foundations to clinical and social principles and applications. • Includes contributions from an experienced, international team of researchers and teachers • Brings together new perspectives and research findings with established psychological principles • Organized around key issues of contemporary cross-cultural psychology, including ethnocentrism, diversity, gender and sexuality and their role in research methods • Argues for the importance of culture as an integral component in the teaching of psychology

Author : Erich A. Berendt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027291608

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In Contemporary Metaphor Theory (CMT) research has predominantly focused on the English language with few studies of others and even less systematic comparative work. This volume focuses on the discourse domain of LEARNING (formal, technical and informal aspects) and brings together a variety of language perspectives, some specifically comparative, on aspects of learning from historical transformations in metaphoric language use through contemporary social values and classroom discourse to planning for the future in educational policy to see how conceptual metaphoric patterns and conventional metaphors with related figurative language impact on social values and culturally conditioned perspectives in learning. Most papers reflect Lakoffian conceptual metaphoric research including critical evaluation of analytical issues. Languages included are Arabic, Chinese, English, Hungarian, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Russian and the South African language area. Most papers utilize extensive data including such genre as technical writing, essays, conversational interaction, newspaper corpus and proverbs.