TY - CHAP A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Polzenhagen, Frank T1 - Cultural Linguistics BT - some disciplinary and terminological considerations T2 - The Handbook of Cultural Linguistics (Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics (SHLL)) N2 - Without a doubt, not only through numerous landmark publications (e.g., Sharifian 2003, 2011, 2015, 2017a, b), Farzad Sharifian has shaped the field of Cultural Linguistics like no one has. The success of Cultural Linguistics has been due, to a considerable extent, to the integration of previous theoretical concepts, methods, and terminologies into a unified theoretical approach. However, this process of integration, to our minds, has not been completed. In fact, the first author of this chapter, in a couple of his publications (Wolf et al. 2021; Kühmstedt and Wolf 2022) was about to enter into a terminological debate with Farzad Sharifian, when he left us too early. In this chapter, we would like to take up and systematize this debate. Primarily, as regards theory, we will focus on the relation of Cultural Linguistics to Cognitive Sociolinguistics, and as regards terminology, on the central concept of “cultural conceptualization.” By doing so, it is our hope to solidify the paradigm of Cultural Linguistics even more and to provide a further terminological refinement for “cultural conceptualization.” Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-981-99-3799-8 SN - 978-981-99-3800-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3800-1_7 SP - 109 EP - 134 PB - Springer CY - Singapore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Latić, Denisa A1 - Polzenhagen, Frank A1 - Peters, Arne T1 - World englishes and cultural linguistics BT - theory and research JF - World Englishes : journal of English as an international and intranational language N2 - This article explores the evolution of Cultural Linguistics, its fusion with Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Sociolinguistics, and its application to the study of world Englishes, emphasising the cultural dimension of language and cognition. It investigates key theoretical concepts in Cultural Linguistics such as cultural categories, schemas, conceptualisations, keywords, models and scenarios as essential analytical tools for examining the interplay between thought, language and culture. Using examples from English varieties in sub-Saharan Africa, Great Britain, Ireland, India and Hong Kong, this article demonstrates how these conceptual phenomena interact at increasing levels of conceptual complexity. The discussion also distinguishes conceptual metaphor (and metonymy) from the somewhat problematic concept of ‘cultural metaphor’, previously used in some cultural-linguistic approaches to world Englishes. Finally, the article delves into Conceptual Blending Theory as a possible extension of Cultural Linguistics that synthesises diverse cultural knowledge to interpret culture-specific expressions in contemporary multilingual settings. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12655 SN - 1467-971X SN - 0883-2919 VL - 43 IS - 3 SP - 360 EP - 378 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford [u.a.] ER - TY - THES A1 - Wilke, Heinrich T1 - The order of destruction BT - monoculture in colonial Caribbean literature, c. 1640-1800 T2 - Transdisciplinary souths N2 - This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian Revolution. Researching travel literature, plantation manuals, Georgic poetry, letters, and political proclamations, this book interprets texts by Richard Ligon, Henry Drax, James Grainger, Janet Schaw, and Toussaint Louverture. As the first extended investigation into its topic, this book reads colonial Caribbean monoculture as the conjunction of racial capitalism and agrarian capitalism in the tropics. Its eco-Marxist perspective highlights the dual exploitation of the soil and of enslaved agricultural producers under the plantation regime, thereby extending Marxist analysis to the early colonial Caribbean. By focusing on textual form (in literary and non-literary texts alike), this study discloses the bearing of monoculture on contemporary writers' thoughts. In the process, it emphasizes the significance of a literary tradition that, despite its ideological importance, is frequently neglected in (postcolonial) literary studies and the environmental humanities. Located at a crossroads of disciplines and perspectives, this study will be of interest to literary critics and historians working in the early Americas, to students and scholars of agriculture, colonialism, and (racial) capitalism, to those working in the environmental humanities, and to Marxist academics. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of language and literature, post-colonial studies, cultural studies, diaspora studies, and the Global South studies Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-1-032-51416-1 SN - 978-1-003-46593-5 SN - 978-1-003-78128-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003465935 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - THES A1 - Wiesmeier, Rebekka T1 - Cultural conceptualisations relating to DEATH in Irish English from a diachronic perspective T1 - Kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen im Zusammenhang mit TOD im Irischen Englisch aus einer Diachronen Perspektive N2 - The present thesis looks at cultural conceptualisations in relation to DEATH in Irish English from a Cultural Linguistic perspective and puts a special focus on the diachronic development of these conceptualisations. For the study, a corpus consisting of 1,400 death notices from the Dublin-based national newspaper The Irish Times from 14 historical periods between 1859 and 2023 was compiled, resulting in a highly specialised 70,000-word corpus. First, the manual qualitative analysis of the death notices produced evidence for eight superordinate cultural conceptualisations surrounding DEATH, namely, in the order of their frequency THE DEAD ARE TO BE REMEMBERED OR REGRETTED, DEATH IS SOMETHING POSITIVE, DEATH IS REST, DEATH IS A JOURNEY, DYING IS THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER LIFE, DEATH IS (NOT) A TABOO, DEATH IS GOD’S WILL, and DEATH IS THE END. These conceptualisations were derived from linguistic expressions in the death notices that have these conceptualisations as a cognitive basis. Second, the quantitative comparison of the individual conceptualisations detected diachronic variation, which is interconnected with historical and social developments in Ireland. The thesis, therefore, illustrates the applicability of Cultural Linguistics as an adequate method for diachronic studies interested in culturally determined developments of conceptualisations. N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen in Bezug auf TOD im Irischen Englisch aus der Perspektive der Cultural Linguistics. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der diachronen Entwicklung dieser Konzeptualisierungen. Die Studie basiert auf einem Korpus von 1.400 Todesanzeigen aus der in Dublin erscheinenden überregionalen Zeitung The Irish Times aus 14 historischen Epochen zwischen 1859 und 2023, was zu einem hochspezialisierten Korpus von 70.000 Wörtern führt. Die qualitative manuelle Analyse der Todesanzeigen brachte acht übergeordnete kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen rund um das Thema TOD hervor, nämlich in der Reihenfolge ihrer Häufigkeit: DIE TOTEN MÜSSEN BEDAUERT ODER IN ERINNERUNG BEHALTEN WERDEN, DER TOD IST ETWAS POSITIVES, DER TOD IST RUHE, DER TOD IST EINE REISE, DER TOD IST DER ANFANG EINES ANDEREN LEBENS, DER TOD IST (KEIN) TABU, DER TOD IST DER WILLE GOTTES und DER TOD IST DAS ENDE. Sie wurden von Ausdrücken in den Todesanzeigen abgeleitet, die diese Konzeptualisierungen als kognitive Grundlagen haben. Die diachrone Variation, die durch einen quantitativen Vergleich innerhalb der einzelnen Konzeptualisierungen aufgedeckt wurde, hängt mit historischen und sozialen Entwicklungen in Irland zusammen. Die Arbeit verdeutlicht daher, dass Cultural Linguistics eine geeignete Methodik für diachrone Studien ist, die sich mit kulturell geprägten Entwicklungen von Konzeptualisierungen beschäftigen. KW - cultural linguistics KW - Irish English KW - death KW - diachronic KW - cultural conceptualisations KW - Cultural Linguistics KW - Irisches Englisch KW - Tod KW - diachronisch KW - kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-638719 ER - TY - THES A1 - Schallau, Juliane T1 - “Maybe Happen Is Never Once” – temporalities of guilt in William Faulkner T1 - Zeitlichkeiten von Schuld bei William Faulkner N2 - This study focuses on William Faulkner, whose works explore the demise of the slavery-based Old South during the Civil War in a highly experimental narrative style. Central to this investigation is the analysis of the temporal dimensions of both individual and collective guilt, thus offering a new approach to the often-discussed problem of Faulkner’s portrayal of social decay. The thesis examines how Faulkner re-narrates the legacy of the Old South as a guilt narrative and argues that Faulkner uses guilt in order to corroborate his concept of time and the idea of the continuity of the past. The focus of the analysis is on three of Faulkner’s arguably most important novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses. Each of these novels features a main character deeply overwhelmed by the crimes of the past, whether private, familial, or societal. As a result, guilt is explored both from a domestic as well as a social perspective. In order to show how Faulkner blends past and present by means of guilt, this work examines several methods and motifs borrowed from different fields and genres with which Faulkner narratively negotiates guilt. These include religious notions of original sin, the motif of the ancestral curse prevalent in the Southern Gothic genre, and the psychological concept of trauma. Each of these motifs emphasizes the temporal dimensions of guilt, which are the core of this study, and makes clear that guilt in Faulkner’s work is primarily to be understood as a temporal rather than a moral problem. N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich William Faulkner, der in seinen Werken den Untergang des auf Sklaverei begründeten „Alten Südens“ während des Bürgerkriegs in einer höchst experimentellen Erzählweise verhandelt. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung steht die Analyse der zeitlichen Dimensionen von individueller und kollektiver Schuld, die einen neuen Zugang zu Faulkners vielfach erörterter Darstellung des gesellschaftlichen Verfalls bietet. Im Verlauf der Arbeit wird untersucht, wie Faulkner das Erbe des „Alten Südens“ als Schuld-Narrativ neu erzählt, wodurch Schuld als eine Untermauerung von Faulkners grundsätzlichem Zeitverständnis und der Idee von der Kontinuität der Vergangenheit dient. Der Schwerpunkt der Analyse liegt auf drei von Faulkners wohl bedeutendsten Romanen: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom! und Go Down, Moses. Jeder dieser Romane verfügt über eine Hauptfigur, die zutiefst überwältigt von den Verbrechen der Vergangenheit ist, seien sie privater, familiärer oder gesellschaftlicher Natur. Dadurch wird Schuld sowohl aus familiärer als auch aus sozialer Perspektive beleuchtet. Um aufzuzeigen, wie Vergangenheit und Gegenwart bei Faulkner anhand von Schuld verschmelzen, werden im Verlauf der Arbeit die aus unterschiedlichen Feldern und Genres entlehnten Methoden und Motive untersucht, mit denen Faulkner Schuld narrativ verhandelt. Dazu zählen religiöse Vorstellungen der Ursünde, das insbesondere im Genre der Southern Gothic verwendete Motiv des Fluches sowie das psychologische Konzept des Traumas. Jedes dieser Motive unterstreicht die zeitlichen Dimensionen von Schuld, deren Untersuchung Kern dieser Arbeit ist, und verdeutlicht, dass Schuld bei Faulkner vordergründig als zeitliches und nicht als moralisches Problem zu verstehen ist. KW - William Faulkner KW - guilt KW - Faulkner studies KW - Faulknerforschung KW - William Faulkner KW - Schuld Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-628858 ER - TY - THES A1 - Offizier, Frederike T1 - The biosecurity individual BT - a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security, and identity T2 - American Culture Studies N2 - Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-8376-7145-2 SN - 978-3-8394-7145-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839471456 SN - 2747-4380 SN - 2747-4372 VL - 43 PB - Transcript CY - Bielefeld ER - TY - THES A1 - Odanga, Denish Otieno T1 - Phobic cosmopolitanism BT - navigating ambivalent belonging in contemporary Somali diasporic literature KW - phobia cosmopolitanism KW - Somali KW - eurocentrism Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Latić, Denisa A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Polzenhagen, Frank A1 - Peters, Arne T1 - A research bibliography for world Englishes and Cultural Linguistics JF - World Englishes : journal of English as an international and intranational language N2 - This research bibliography lists some of the hallmark works in the field of Cultural Linguistics and has an exclusive thematic focus on cultural-linguistic approaches to world Englishes. Therefore, other important and congenial works that have been published under the umbrella of, for example, Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) or deal with langauges other than English are excluded but can be found in the respective references of the individual contributions of this special issue. The research bibliography offers reference works for research strands of the world Englishes framework, such as English language teaching and language use in multicultural and multilingual contexts, as well as language use in the public space. Furthermore, with a collection of publications ranging from the 1980s to most recent state-of-the-art works from the year 2024, the authors identify trends and topical developments in the synthesized research of Cultural Linguistics and world Englishes and offer an outlook on new frontiers in this realm. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12654 SN - 1467-971X SN - 0883-2919 VL - 43 IS - 3 SP - 523 EP - 531 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER -