"This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far, under-researched from a cultural linguistic perspective - spirituality, emotionality, and society. The analytical tools provided by Cultural Linguistics, such as cultural conceptualizations and cultural metaphors, are not only applied to various corpora and types of texts but also recalibrated and renegotiated. As a result, the studies in this collective volume showcase a rich body of work that contributes to the manifestation of Cultural Linguistics as an indispensable paradigm in modern language studies. Being a testament to the inseparability of language and culture, this book will enlighten academics, professionals and students working in the fields of Cultural Linguistics, sociology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies"--.

• Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
  • References
• Section I. Cultural-linguistic explorations into religion, spirituality, and the supernatural
• Cultural linguistics and religion
  • 1. Cultural linguistics
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Conceptualizations relating to Sufi life
  • 4. Conceptualizations relating to death in Buddhist and Christian eulogistic idioms
  • 5. Conceptualizations relating to Sacred Sites in Aboriginal English
    • 5.1 Aboriginal English
    • 5.2 Sacredness in Aboriginal English
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Lexical evidence for ancestral communication in Black South African English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and method
  • 3. Herbalist advertisements and representations of ancestors
  • 4. Ancestors in sub-Saharan and South Africa
  • 5. The communicative dimension: Traditional healers as mediators
  • 6. ‘Throwing bones’ as a ritualized communicative act
  • 7. Conceptualizations of ancestral communication
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
• Cultural conceptualizations of magical practices related to menstrual blood in a transhistorical and transcontinental perspective
  • Prologue
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Spiritualistic conceptualizations of blood and their geographical, temporal, and cultural distribution
  • 3. Menstrual blood and its conceptualizations
    • 3.1 Conceptualizations of menstrual blood as a charm
    • 3.2 Menstrual blood as a love charm
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Section II. Cultural-linguistic explorations into emotion concepts
• Conceptualizing SHAME in Old Romanian: A cultural and historical-semantic analysis
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Theoretical framework
  • 3. Shame – definition, description, and typology
    • 3.1 Psychological, anthropological, and sociological perspective
    • 3.2 Linguistic perspective
  • 4. Conceptualization and lexicalization of shame in Old Romanian
    • 4.1 Prototypical shame
    • 4.2 Contiguous / hybrid shame
    • 4.3 Positive (honorable) shame – shyness/modesty/pudor
  • 5. Final remarks
  • Corpus (16th–18th centuries)
  • References
• Cultural conceptualizations of xejâlat and kamruyi: Two sharm -related emotion categories in Persian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cultural linguistics
  • 3. Cultural Linguistics and emotion research
  • 4. Data and methodology
  • 5. Results
    • 5.1 Xejâlat as an emotion category
    • 5.2 Cultural metaphors
    • 5.3 ru-dar-bâyesti as a shame-related cultural schema
    • 5.4 âberu as a shame-related cultural schema
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Narrative questionnaire (English version)
  • Appendix 2. Reflective questionnaire (English version)
• Cross-cultural models of mental hurt emotion clusters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. hurt Emotion Event
  • 3. Emotion clusters
  • 4. Cultural influences
  • 5. Aims of the study
  • 6. Research methodology
    • 6.1 Online emotions sorting methodology
    • 6.2 GRID
    • 6.3 Corpus data
  • 7. Results
    • 7.1 Online emotions sorting results
    • 7.2 GRID results
    • 7.3 Corpus data analysis and discussion
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Corpora
• Section III. Cultural-linguistic explorations into social identities and cultural concepts
• Correspondences between Hungarian women’s marital names and the traditional family schema
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The practice of marital name changing
    • 2.1 Marital names in Hungary
  • 3. The traditional family schema in the Hungarian context
    • 3.1 The background of the traditional family schema in Hungary
    • 3.2 The traditional family schema in the Hungarians’ present cultural cognition
  • 4. The survey: Questions and methodology
  • 5. Single component analysis of name structure vs. components of the traditional family schema
    • 5.1 Family structure
    • 5.2 Division of labor
    • 5.3 Motivation of name changing
  • 6. Linkage between marital name structure and overall traditional family schema
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Questions and answer options concerning ‘family structure’
  • Appendix 2. Questions and answer options concerning ‘division of labor’
  • Appendix 3. Questions and answer options concerning ‘motivation of name changing’
  • Appendix 3. Questions and answer options concerning ‘motivation of name changing’
• Innate or acquired?: homosexuality and cultural models of gender in Indian and Nigerian English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data
  • 3. Word lists
  • 4. Conceptualizations of homosexuality
    • 4.1 homosexuality in Indian English
    • 4.2 homosexuality in Nigerian English
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• Culture-specific elaborations in cross-linguistic studies of metaphors: Comparing life is a journey in Chinese and British English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cultural variations and their causes
  • 3. life is a journey in Chinese and British English
  • 4. Methodology
  • 5. life is a journey in Chinese and British English
    • 5.1 states are locations/objects
    • 5.2 means are paths
    • 5.3 purpose of life is reaching the end of the path
    • 5.4 difficulties are counterforces
    • 5.5 changes and progress are movements
    • 5.6 actions and causes are forces
    • 5.7 roles in life are roles on a journey
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Essentials and valuables: Cultural conceptualizations of Cantonese rice idioms
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Research of food metaphors and their linguistic instantiations
  • 3. The study: Analytical framework, data and materials
    • 3.1 Analytical framework
    • 3.2 Cantonese rice idioms and data collection
    • 3.3 Materials for analysis
  • 4. Cultural conceptualizations of Cantonese rice idioms
    • 4.1 Cultural conceptualizations of essentials
    • 4.2 Cultural conceptualizations of valuables
  • 5. Cantonese speakers’ perception of the idiomaticity of Cantonese rice idioms
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix 1. An excerpt of the online questionnaire on speakers’ knowledge and frequency of the use of Cantonese rice idioms with English translation
  • Appendix 2. Material sources
• Conceptualization index
• Names index
• Subject index