Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

The study of language, culture, and cognition has become increasingly fragmented into separate disciplines and paradigms. This volume aims to re-establish dialogue between cognitive linguists and linguistic anthropologists with 11 original papers on language, culture and cognition, and an editorial introduction. It demonstrates that cognitively-informed perspectives can contribute to a better understanding of social, cultural, and historical phenomena, and argues that cognitive theories are relevant to linguistic anthropology.

Masataka Yamaguchi is Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is on the editorial board of Discourse, Context and Media, and has published widely in Language and Communication, Discourse and Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses, among other journals.

Dennis Tay is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a cognitive linguist and discourse analyst, whose recent publications include Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis, and papers in Cognitive Linguistic Studies and Journal of Counseling and Development, among others.

Benjamin Blount is the owner of a consulting business, SocioEcological Informatics, based in the US. He has taught anthropology and linguistics at the University of Texas Austin, the University of Georgia, and the University of Texas San Antonio, USA. Among his publications are three edited books on language, culture, and society, and an edited book on ethnoecology, and he was the inaugural editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

1. Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition; Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay, and Benjamin Blount
PART I - COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
2. Culture and Cognition, Lexicon and Grammar; Ronald W. Langacker
3. Deliteralization and the Birth of 'Emotion'; Dirk Geeraerts
4. 'Overthrowing' Yesterday's ICM: Meaning Reversal in a Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese) Constructional Idiom; Kam-yiu S. Pang
PART II: CULTURAL LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
5. Cultural Linguistics; Farzad Sharifian
6. Sloppy Selfhood: Metaphor, Embodiment, Animism, and Anthropomorphization in Japanese Language and Culture; Debra J Occhi
7. The Ceremonial Origins of Language; Gary B. Palmer, Jennifer Thompson, Jeffrey Parkin, Elizabeth Harmon
PART III: INTERSECTION OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
8. On Intersubjective Co-construction of Virtual Space through Multimodal Means: A Case of Japanese Route-finding Discourse; Kuniyoshi Kataoka
9. Discovering Shared Understandings in Discourse: Prototypes and Stereotypes; Masataka Yamaguchi
10. Experiences as Resources: Metaphor and Life in Late Modernity; Lionel Wee
11. An Analysis of Metaphor Hedging in Psychotherapeutic Talk; Dennis Tay
PART IV: SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
12. Situating Cultural Models in History and Cognition; Benjamin Blount