Linguistic Worldview(s)

<p>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.</p><p>The volume traces the development of the linguistic worldview conception from its origins in ancient Greece to 20th-century linguistic relativity Western ethnosemantics parallel movements in eastern Europe and contemporary inquiry into languacultures. It outlines the important theoretical issues surveys the major approaches and identifies areas of both convergence and discrepancy between them. By proposing three sample analyses the book highlights the relevant questions addressed in different but compatible models as well as identifies possible avenues of their further development. Finally it considers several domains of potential interest to the linguistic worldview agenda. Because inquiry into linguistic worldviews concerns the sphere of the symbolic and the cultural it touches upon the very essence of human lives.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars working in cultural linguistics ethnolinguistics linguistic anthropology comparative semantics and translation studies.</p>