How do concepts of mental life vary across cultures? By asking simple questions about
humans, animals and other entities–for example,'Do beetles get hungry? Remember things …

This paper explores “Anglocentrism” as a bias in contemporary linguistics and cognitive
sciences. Anglo concepts dominate international discourse on language and cognition, but …

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 …

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 …

'Cultural Keywords in Discourse'studies culturally-specific words around which whole
discourses are organised. The book utilises insights from recent work in cultural semantics …

1. INTRODUCTION. The launching of a new journal is a very special event. Like when
tectonic plates rumble for a while to make room for a new island in the ocean, the world of …

L'étude lexicographique des variétés postcoloniales des langues est très peu théorisée et
développée. Dans ce contexte, la présente étude expose un nouveau cadre d'étude: la …

This study breaks new ground into the emerging discipline of sonic semantics and the study
of language ideologies in postcolonial contexts. The case in point is the reggae sociality in …

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

In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if
not defined, by African Pentecostalism. The objective of this volume is to investigate and …