Title:
Language and culture : global flows and local complexity
Author:
Risager, Karen, 1947-
ISBN:
9781853598609
9781853598593
9781853598586
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Publication Information:
Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages).
Series:
Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 11
Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 11.
Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Language and Culture in a Global Perspective; Chapter 2 Tour de France in German Language Teaching: A Preliminary Analysis; Chapter 3 The Concept of Culture: An Introduction; Chapter 4 Language, Nation and Culture: The German Tradition; Chapter 5 Cultural Complexity; Chapter 6 A Sociolinguistic View of Language; Chapter 7 Linguistic Flows and Linguistic Complexity; Chapter 8 Languacultural Dimensions; Chapter 9 Discourse and Double Intertextuality; Chapter 10 Cultural Contexts; Chapter 11 Cultural Contents.
Abstract:
Presents a theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. This book shows that the fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks and across national communities.
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