What is it about?
This chapter explores how corpus-linguistic methodology can contribute to the emerging field of Cultural Linguistics, as it presents three corpus-based case studies of cultural conceptualization.
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Why is it important?
Several experimental methods have seen use in Cultural Linguistics; this chapter argues that the study of language in more naturalistic settings can be a valuable addition to the growing inventory of analytical techniques and methods in the field. Moreover, one of the case studies explores the currently undertheorized phenomenon of cultural metonymy as a potential fourth central type of cultural conceptualization in cultural-linguistic theory.
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Writing this article allowed me to combine three of my major research interests: constructions, corpus linguistics, and cultural cognition. Working with the editor, Farzad Sharifian, was a pleasure, and I am really honored by how open, tolerant and appreciative the cultural-linguistic research community has been towards the research and ideas put forth in my chapter. Also, I must say that, like all the other contributors, I am really proud to have contributed a chapter to such an important publication.
Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
University of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: Corpora and Cultural Cognition: How Corpus-Linguistic Methodology Can Contribute to Cultural Linguistics, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4056-6_22.
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