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Relative Points of View : Linguistic Representations of Culture / ed. by Magda Stroinska.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2001]Copyright date: 2001Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800734913
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I THINKING IN WORDS -- 1. Space and Time in Natural Language: Some Parallels between Spatial and Temporal Expressions in English and Russian -- 2. Rendering Metaphor in Reported Speech: Pragmatic Contingencies -- PART II LANGUAGE AND POLITICS -- 3. Politicians on Drugs: Functions of Political Metaphor across Cultures -- 4. Nationalism and Culture: Some Reflections on the Construction of National Languages -- PART III DIVIDED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE -- 5. Between Relativism and Truth: Jean Baudrillard, the Sokal Affair and the Use of Scientific Terminology across Cultural Boundaries -- 6. Language, Culture and Gender Identities: Examining Arguments about Marriage -- PART IV: DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, DIFFERENT THOUGHTS -- 7. Management, Culture and Discourse in International Business -- 8. Intercultural Competence: Theories into Practic -- PART V: BEYOND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE -- 9. Emotion and Labour in Cultural Comparison -- 10. Language about God: Meeting the Other -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: The relationship between language and various kinds of non-linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy, or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The authors in this volume explore this relationship in a number of cultures and social contexts and discuss the problem of linguistic relativism and its application to several areas of social interaction across cultures. The authors deal with such questions as how language and culture intersect resulting in different points of view on reality that are all equally authentic and rooted in experience. The question of the influence of language and culture on our perceptino of physical and social reality is re-examined for such domains as politics, commerce, working with people, religion, and gender relations.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I THINKING IN WORDS -- 1. Space and Time in Natural Language: Some Parallels between Spatial and Temporal Expressions in English and Russian -- 2. Rendering Metaphor in Reported Speech: Pragmatic Contingencies -- PART II LANGUAGE AND POLITICS -- 3. Politicians on Drugs: Functions of Political Metaphor across Cultures -- 4. Nationalism and Culture: Some Reflections on the Construction of National Languages -- PART III DIVIDED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE -- 5. Between Relativism and Truth: Jean Baudrillard, the Sokal Affair and the Use of Scientific Terminology across Cultural Boundaries -- 6. Language, Culture and Gender Identities: Examining Arguments about Marriage -- PART IV: DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, DIFFERENT THOUGHTS -- 7. Management, Culture and Discourse in International Business -- 8. Intercultural Competence: Theories into Practic -- PART V: BEYOND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE -- 9. Emotion and Labour in Cultural Comparison -- 10. Language about God: Meeting the Other -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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The relationship between language and various kinds of non-linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy, or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The authors in this volume explore this relationship in a number of cultures and social contexts and discuss the problem of linguistic relativism and its application to several areas of social interaction across cultures. The authors deal with such questions as how language and culture intersect resulting in different points of view on reality that are all equally authentic and rooted in experience. The question of the influence of language and culture on our perceptino of physical and social reality is re-examined for such domains as politics, commerce, working with people, religion, and gender relations.

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