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Phraseology and Culture in English (Hardcover)
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Phraseology and Culture in English (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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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.
enjoy 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.
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