1st Edition

Linguistic Worldview(s) Approaches and Applications

By Adam Głaz Copyright 2022
240 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the concept of linguistic worldview, which is underpinned by the underlying idea that languages, in their lexicogrammatical structures and patterns of usage, encode interpretations of reality that symbolize, shape, and construct speakers’ cultural experience. The volume traces the development of the linguistic worldview conception from its origins in ancient Greece to 20... Read more

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Linguistic Worldview Conception in Close-Up

Chapter 2. Linguistic Worldview: A Historical Background

Chapter 3. Linguistic Worldview Research Today: A Survey of Approaches

Chapter 4. In Search of Compatible Answers: Three Case Studies

Chapter 5. Where Do We Go? The Challenges of Contemporary World

Index

Biography

Adam Głaz, affiliated with Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland, researches in cognitive and cultural linguistics, linguistic worldview, and translation. He has authored two monographs (The Dynamics of Meaning, 2002; Extended Vantage Theory in Linguistic Application, 2012) and several dozen articles. He has edited or co-edited ten volumes, most recently Languages-Cultures-Worldviews: Focus on Translation (2019). Głaz has also been translated in linguistics and general humanities, including two monographs (by Anna Wierzbicka and Jerzy Bartmiński).