Language and Cultural Change
Title | Language and Cultural Change PDF eBook |
Author | Lodi Nauta |
Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9789042917576 |
It is common wisdom that language is culturally embedded. Cultural change is often accompanied by a change in idiom, in language or in ideas about language. No period serves as a better example of the formative influence of language on culture than the Renaissance. With the advent of humanism new modes of speaking and writing arose. But not only did classical Latin become the paradigm of clear and elegant writing, it also gave rise to new ideas about language and the teaching of it. Some scholars have argued that the cultural paradigm shift from scholasticism to humanism was causally determined by the rediscovery, study and emulation of the classical language, for learning a new language opens up new possibilities for exploring and describing one's perceptions, thoughts and beliefs. However, the vernacular traditions too rose to prominence and vied with Latin for cultural prestige. This volume, number XXIV in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at a workshop on language and cultural change held in Groningen in February 2004. Ten specialists explore the multifarious ways in which language contributed to the shaping of Renaissance culture. They discuss themes such as the relationship between medieval and classical Latin, between Latin and the vernacular, between humanist and scholastic conceptions of language and grammar, translation from Latin into the vernacular, Jewish ideas about different kinds of Hebrew, and shifting ideas on the power and limits of language in the articulation of truth and divine wisdom. There are essays on major thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa and Leonardo Bruni, but also on less well-known figures and texts. The volume as a whole hopes to contribute to a deeper understanding of the highly complex interplay between language and culture in the transition period between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Italy and the USA
Title | Italy and the USA PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Bonsaver |
Publisher | Italian Perspectives |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-07-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781781888766 |
This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S. cultures. The volume also showcases new research - quantitative, interpretative, and archival - which contributes to the study of cultural contact. It therefore offers new evidence to answer a question which has long been pivotal in various disciplines and research fields (from historical linguistics to cultural anthropology) - namely, how and to what extent cultural contact can affect long-term historical change?
Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction
Title | Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction PDF eBook |
Author | Don Kulick |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1997-04-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521599269 |
This book, first published in 1992, is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among the people of Gapun, a small community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.
Formulaic Language and Linguistic Change
Title | Formulaic Language and Linguistic Change PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Buerki |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2020-04-16 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1108477461 |
Using rigorous data-led methods, the book analyses formulaic language from the angle of historical linguistics, revealing key new insights.
Approaches to Language and Culture
Title | Approaches to Language and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Svenja Völkel |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2022-08-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110727153 |
This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.
Language and Culture on the Margins
Title | Language and Culture on the Margins PDF eBook |
Author | Sjaak Kroon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780815373025 |
This collection of thirteen essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a wide variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and cultural changes at work in these settings. Taking an expansive conceptual view of margins, the volume is organized in three parts, looking at examples of marginal spaces in the nation-state, in online environments, and in the peripheries of urban locations, globally to call attention to new and changing discursive genres, patterns, practices, and identities emerging in these spaces as a result of contemporary mobilities, the evolving global economy, and socio-political changes. With previous research previously confined to the study of globalization in urban areas, this volume opens the door for further research on the complex sociolinguistic processes resulting from globalization on the margins, making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, globalization and heritage studies, new media, anthropology, and cultural studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
Archaeology and Language
Title | Archaeology and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Blench |
Publisher | |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Archaeology |
ISBN | 0415117860 |