Language And Culture: Global Flows And Local Complexity

Description:
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.

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

Author Biography:
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.