Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition

1. Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay, Benjamin Blount

Part I. Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Language and Culture

2. Culture and Cognition, Lexicon and Grammar
Ronald W. Langacker

3. Deliteralization and the Birth of ‘Emotion’
Dirk Geeraerts

4. ‘Overthrowing’ Yesterday’s ICM: (Re)focusing of Meaning in a Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese) Constructional Idiom
Kam-yiu S. Pang

Part II. Cultural Linguistic Approaches to Language and Culture

5. Advances in Cultural Linguistics
Farzad Sharifian

6. Sloppy Selfhood: Metaphor, Embodiment, Animism, and Anthropomorphization in Japanese Language and Culture
Debra J. Occhi

7. The Ceremonial Origins of Language
Gary B. Palmer, Jennifer Thompson, Jeffrey Parkin, Elizabeth Harmon

Part III. Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

8. On Intersubjective Co-construction of Virtual Space through Multimodal Means: A Case of Japanese Route-Finding Discourse
Kuniyoshi Kataoka

9. Discovering Shared Understandings in Discourse: Prototypes and Stereotypes
Masataka Yamaguchi

10. Experiences as Resources: Metaphor and Life in Late Modernity
Lionel Wee

11. An Analysis of Metaphor Hedging in Psychotherapeutic Talk
Dennis Tay

Part IV. Summary and Future Directions

12. Situating Cultural Models in History and Cognition
Benjamin Blount

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Psycholinguistics, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy, general, Anthropology