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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents a comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. Now in its second edition, it has been fully revised to provide a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies in this research area. This new edition addresses the relationship between language and culture from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. Organized into four parts, it covers major research traditions in the field, key theoretical approaches and concepts, methods and core topics in the study of the link between language and culture, and directions in applied domains, and brings together 36 carefully commissioned chapters. These cover topical areas including cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics, while tracing their historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice. Building on Farzad Sharifian's legacy, editors Wolf and Polzenhagen guide readers through emerging directions in the field, demonstrating how language and culture research can benefit applied areas such as intercultural communication, higher education, and translation. Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture 2e provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.

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Author:   Hans-Georg Wolf ,  Frank Polzenhagen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032414188

ISBN 10:   1032414189
Pages:   580
Publication Date:   19 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Handbook, Farzad Sharifian, Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen 2. The Future Agenda for Research on Language and Culture, Roslyn M. Frank Part 1: The Study of Language and Culture: The Wider Framework 3. Precursors and Historical Background, John Leavitt 4. Cognitive Anthropology, Claudia Strauss 5. Cultural Semiotics, Peeter Torop 6. Sociolinguistics and Contact Linguistics, Meredith Marra (Part A), Anna Finzel (Part B) 7. Ethnopragmatics, Cliff Goddard, Anna Gladkova, Zhengdao Ye 8. Context in Intercultural Pragmatics, Istvan Kecskes 9. Cultural Linguistics, Farzad Sharifian (Part A), Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen (Part B) 10. Methods in the Study of Language and Culture, Alexander Onysko, Marcus Callies Part 2: The Study of Language and Culture: Key Domains of Analysis, 11. Language, Culture, and Identity, Sandra R. Schecter 12. Language, Culture, and Gender, Lidia Tanaka 13. Language, Culture, and Politeness, Sara Mills 14. Language, Culture, and Interaction, Peter Eglin 15. Language, Culture, and Discourse, Andrew P. Carlin, Ricardo Moutinho 16. Language and Subcultures, Heiko Motschenbacher 17. Language, Culture, and Linguistic Prehistory, Patrick McConvell 18. Language, Culture, and Kinship Systems, David B. Kronenfeld 19. Language, Culture, and Colour Categorization, Don Dedrick 20. Language, Culture, and Emotion Concepts, Jean-Marc Dewaele Part 3: Language, Culture, and Cognition 21. Language, Culture, and Embodiment, Ning Yu 22. Culture and Language Development, Laura Sterponi, Paul F. Lai 23. Culture and Language Processing, Dailyn Q. Clark, Jeanette Altarriba 24. Language and Cultural Scripts, Anna Wierzbicka 25. Language, Culture, and Metaphor, Zoltán Kövecses 26. Language, Culture, and Prototypicality, Frank Polzenhagen, Xiaoyan Xia 27. Language, Culture, and Spatial Cognition, Penelope Brown 28. Language, Culture, and Space-Time Mapping, Chris Sinha, Enrique Bernárdez Part 4: Language and Culture in Applied Domains 29. Language, Culture, and Intercultural Communication, Hans-Georg Wolf 30. Language, Culture, and World Englishes, Andy Kirkpatrick 31. Language, Culture, and Second Dialect Learning, Ian Malcolm 32. Language, Culture, and Higher Education, Sami Alhasnawi 33. Language, Culture, and Second-Language Writing, Dwight Atkinson 34. Language, Culture, and Translation, Nigel Armstrong 35. Language, Culture, and the Workplace, Milene Mendes de Oliveira 36. Language, Culture, and Gesture, Ulrike Schröder, Jürgen Streeck

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Hans-Georg Wolf holds the chair of Development and Variation of the English Language at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He is co-editor of a series on cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts and serves on the editorial board of several journals focused on language and culture, as well as World Englishes. Frank Polzenhagen is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany. His research and writing focus on the study of second-language varieties of English from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective.

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