Phraseology and Culture in English

Paul Skandera (ed.)3110190877, 9783110190878

Книга Phraseology and Culture in English Phraseology and Culture in English Книги Иностранные языки Автор: Paul Skandera Год издания: 2007 Формат: pdf Издат.:Mouton de Gruyter Страниц: 511 Размер: 1,3 Mb ISBN: 3110190877 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка: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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Table of contents :
Preface……Page 5
Contents……Page 7
Prologue……Page 11
Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view……Page 13
Focus on particular lexemes……Page 57
Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings……Page 59
Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere……Page 89
Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun……Page 119
Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian……Page 147
Focus on types of idioms……Page 189
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)……Page 191
Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England……Page 215
Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English……Page 245
Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse……Page 267
Focus on use-related varieties: Registers……Page 283
Lexical developments in greenspeaking……Page 285
The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction……Page 313
Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages……Page 333
Focus on user-related varieties: Dialects and ethnolects……Page 361
Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance?……Page 363
Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cultural expression in an adopted language……Page 385
Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English……Page 409
Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles……Page 447
Epilogue……Page 479
Formulaic language in cultural perspective……Page 481
Index……Page 507