Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity

by Karen Risager

Overview

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853598586
Publisher:	Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Publication date:	02/28/2006
Series:	Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education Series , #11
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.41(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Karen Risager is Dr.Phil and Professor in Cultural Encounters at the Department of Language and Culture, Roskilde University, Denmark. She has conducted interdisciplinary research for thirty years within the fields of language and culture teaching, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, internationalisation and intercultural competence, and the language and cultural learning of adult migrants.

Table of Contents

Foreword
1. Language and Culture in a Global Perspective
2. Tour de France in German Language Teaching: A Preliminary Analysis
3. The Concept of Culture: An Introduction
4. Language, Nation and Culture: The German Tradition
5. Cultural Complexity
6. A Sociolinguistic View of Language
7. Linguistic Flows and Linguistic Complexity
8. Languacultural Dimensions
9. Discourse and Double Intertextuality
10. Cultural Contexts
11. Cultural Contents
12. Linguistic, Discursive and Cultural Flows
13. The Language-Culture Nexus
14. Language and Culture:A Multidimensional Relationship
References
Index