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Language and Culture

Language and Culture

Karen Risager

(2006)

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Abstract

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.


Karen Risager is Dr.Phil and Professor in Cultural Encounters at the Department of Language and Culture, Roskilde University, Denmark. She has conducted interdisciplinary research for thirty years within the fields of language and culture teaching, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, internationalisation and intercultural competence, and the language and cultural learning of adult migrants.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Contents v
Foreword x
Acknowledgements xiii
Chapter 1 Language and Culture in a Global Perspective 1
Chapter 2 Tour de France in German Language Teaching: A Preliminary Analysis 19
Chapter 3 The Concept of Culture: An Introduction 32
Chapter 4 Language, Nation and Culture: The German Tradition 54
Chapter 5 Cultural Complexity 64
Chapter 6 A Sociolinguistic View of Language 74
Chapter 7 Linguistic Flows and Linguistic Complexity 88
Chapter 8 Languacultural Dimensions 110
Chapter 9 Discourse and Double Intertextuality 137
Chapter 10 Cultural Contexts 149
Chapter 11 Cultural Contents 161
Chapter 12 Linguistic, Discursive and Cultural Flows 173
Chapter 13 The Language-Culture Nexus 185
Chapter 14 Language and Culture: A Multidimensional Relationship 194
References 201