This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar
and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the …

The claim that “the Cognitive Linguistics movement as we know it today was born out of
polemical opposition to Chomskyan linguistics” is unlikely to raise many eyebrows. I made it …

The purpose of this paper is threefold. Firstly, it seeks to fill a gap in the literature on
interjections by suggesting that 'laughter interjections'(words such English haha or hehe) …

This paper explores sort humor 'black humor', a key concept in Danish conversational
humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes …

This paper argues that politeness, a notion central to many theories of social interaction and
pragmatics, is fundamentally biased towards models of social interaction based on the …

The paper assesses the ways the Somali diaspora in Denmark is contributing to
peacebuilding in their home country through what is known in peace studies as Multi-Track …

The label cultural linguistics has been used to refer either to a broad field of scientific
endeavour—which I suggest to call cultural linguistics (in lowercase)—or to a more narrowly …

This chapter focuses on one language, one type of monolingual pedagogical English as a
Foreign Language (EFL) dictionary and, presumably, one culture. Naturally, the question of …

In postcolonial Melanesia, cultural discourses are increasingly organised around creole
words, ie keywords of Bislama (Vanuatu) and Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea). These words …

В последние годы использование термина лингвокультурология неуклонно растет; он
служит либо для обозначения широкого научного направления, которое я предлагаю …