Language and Culture

Karen Risager

ISBN 10: 1853598585 / ISBN 13: 9781853598586

Published by Channel View Publications Ltd, GB, 2006

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language and Culture
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853598585
• ISBN 13: 9781853598586
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 294 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research field is language and intercultural education from a transnational and global perspective. She has published widely, including Representations of the World in Language Textbooks (Multilingual Matters, 2018).