Cultural conceptualizations in language and communication

The book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language. The focus of Part 1, which includes four papers, is on Metaphor and Culture, discussing general as well as language-specific metaphoricity. Part 2, which also includes three papers, is on Cultural Models, dealing with phenomena relating to family and home, nation and kinship, blood, and death in different cultures. Six papers in Part 3, which refers to questions of Identity and Cultural Stereotypes, both in general language and in literature, discuss identity in native and migration contexts and take up motifs of journey and migration, as well as social and cultural stereotypes and prejudice in transforming contexts. Three papers in the last Part 4 of the book, Linguistic Concepts, Meanings, and Interaction, focus on the semantic interpretation of the changes and differences which occur in their intra- as well as inter-linguistic contexts.

Metaphors for the nation: conceptualisation of its BODY and/or PERSON -- Why would we rather peg out than simply die? How do game metaphors help us deal with death across languages and cultures? -- On patterns of conceptual construal in Tok Pisin -- The red pill, unicorns and white knights: cultural symbolism and conceptual metaphor in the slang of online incel communities -- Iconic nature of board game rules and instructions -- Kazakh cultural models of family and home in contrast -- Family networking of bilingual couples: reactions to otherness -- Framing the conceptualization of obesity in online Chinese and British quality newspapers: a corpus-assisted study -- From the Theatre-in-the-Round to the Theatre of the Oppressed- a process of forming interaction -- Changes in the stereotype of Italians in Polish students of Italian philology -- The trope of the wanderer in "post" German (migration?) literature -- Trans(de)formations- migrant traumas in Aga Maksimowskas Giant -- The ethnos of Volhynian Germans- from the study of language islands to national socialist propaganda -- German and Austrian identity in modern Slavic Osijek -- Can the social ecological model help overcome pr…