Peeters, Bert (2016). APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS is cultural linguistics, but is it CULTURAL LINGUISTICS? International journal of language and culture, 3(2), 137-160. DOI: 10.1075/ijolc.3.2.01pee
Reprinted as:
Peeters, Bert (2017). APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS is cultural linguistics, but is it CULTURAL LINGUISTICS? In Farzad Sharifian (Ed.), Advances in Cultural Linguistics (pp. 507-527). Singapore: Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4056-6_23
Translated into Russian as:
Peeters, Bert (2017). ПРИКЛАДНАЯ ЭТНОЛИНГВИСТИКА – это лингвокультурология, но ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРОЛОГИЯ ли? Жанры речи [Zhanry rechi = Speech genres], 15, 37-50. DOI: 10.18500/2311-0740-2017-1-15-37-50
The label cultural linguistics has been used to refer either to a broad field of scientific endeavour — referred to as “cultural linguistics” (in lower case) — or to a more narrowly defined framework within that field — referred to as “CULTURAL LINGUISTICS” (in small capitals). The latter uses cultural conceptualizations (categories, metaphors, schemas, and models) to study aspects of cultural cognition and its instantiation in language. The term cultural value is used sparingly, and not at all in a technical sense. This, then, raises the question whether bridges can be built between CULTURAL LINGUISTICS and APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS. The latter makes prolific use of the term cultural value, which it sees as fundamental to its endeavours.
Close scrutiny reveals that both frameworks do acknowledge the importance of cultural values: in CULTURAL LINGUISTICS, detailed study of culturally specific conceptualizations may lead to a more precise understanding of the cultural values upheld in particular language communities. Nonetheless, there seems to be little prospect for an amalgamation of the two frameworks. Rather, APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS and CULTURAL LINGUISTICS are both part of the broader field of cultural linguistics, where they provide separate, but equally useful, methodologies for the study of language and cultural values.
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