Intercultural Semantics

Meaning-Making, Metalanguage, and Migration

AvCarsten Levisen,Susana S. Fernández

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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This volume sets out a new framework for intercultural semantics, an innovative approach to making sense of the complexities of meaning-making in language encounters through the lens of migration.The book moves beyond structuralist approaches and research on English as an international language for a meaning-centered perspective to the study of language and communication. With “language migrants” moving from one linguistic sphere to another in which their lives and livelihoods depend on acquiring new languages, the volume makes the case for a new framework that bridges diverse sub-disciplines across linguistics with that of semantic work on meaning to better understand these realities. The first section introduces the theoretical foundations, drawing on work from migration linguistics, linguistic worldview, and cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics. The second part highlights case studies across different domains in the Danish context, from children in society to the workplace to interpersonal relationships to climate and the environment, with implications for other geographic contexts. The final section addresses the metalinguistic, idiomatic, technological, and intercultural challenges of intercultural semantics toward outlining future directions for this area of study. This book will appeal to scholars interested in semantics, pragmatics, language and culture, language learning and teaching, and migration studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-22
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041081388

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Carsten Levisen is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. Susana S. Fernández is Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy in the Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark.Susana S. Fernández is Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy in the Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Innehållsförteckning

Situating Intercultural Semantics (Carsten Levisen and Susana S. Fernández), Part 1: Inroads, 2. Language Migrants: Bridging Intercultural Semantics and Migration Linguistics (Carsten Levisen), 3. Interculturality Revisited: Insights from Language/Culture Learning (Susana S. Fernández), 4. Lexicographies of Life: Visibilizing Meaning with Cultural Dictionaries (Carsten Levisen and Noah Rørbæk), Part 2: Domains, 5. Children in Society (Astrid Mus Rasmussen), 6. Language at the Workplace (Susana S. Fernández), 7. Green Semantics: Making Sense of Environmental Language Encounters (Carsten Levisen), Part 3: Challenges, 8. Idiomatic Challenges in Intercultural Semantics: Insights from the Grammar of Gratitude (Carsten Levisen), 9. Beyond Migration Contexts: Intercultural Semantics and the Teaching of International Languages (Susana S. Fernández), 10. Everyday Intercultural Challenges: Listening to the Stories of Language Migrants (Susana S. Fernández and Astrid Mus Rasmussen), 11. Epilogue: Intercultural Challenges: Listening to the stories of language migrants (Carsten Levisen and Susana S. Fernández), Index.