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Artist and Agency: Technologies for Exploring Self and Place
This chapter explores how software-based compositional processes can be used to explore relationships between self and place. The process of creating...
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The Spatial Languages of Virtual Production: Critiquing Softwarization with Aesthetic Analysis
The chapter analyses the emergent practice of virtual production and the generation of in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), a process currently...
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Dolby Atmos Music and the Production of Risk
The launch of Dolby Atmos in 2012 marked a significant development in commercial surround sound, allowing for audio to be positioned above as well as...
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Figurations of the Tool Agnostic
In this chapter, we sketch the outlines of the tool agnostic as figuration, a cultural trope for techno-social agency, that is particularly suited to...
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The Expressive Subject: Prosumers, Virtuosi, and Digital Musical Control
This chapter proposes expressive subjectivity as a framework to describe relations between the creativity dispositif, prosumer culture, and digital...
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Cultural Metaphor and Cultural Metonymy in Taiwanese Mandarin
This chapter analyzes the four-character eulogistic idioms used for scholars and martyrs at public funerals in Taiwan based on the framework of...
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Cultural Metaphor and Intercultural Identities
“Cultural Metaphors” are a central element of Farzad Sharifian’s “Cultural Linguistics” theory framework. At various levels they express...
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Cultural Metaphors of Animals in Persian Culture, Literature, and Myths
Animals and expressions using animals play an important part in colloquialisms and cultural references. The analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics...
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Unpacking the Conceptualizations of Hayâ
Emotion is an important domain of human experience and is largely subject to categorization. Barrett (2006: 20) states that “[t]he experience of...
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Conceptualizations of Homeland in Rumi’s Poetry: A Cultural Linguistic Approach
There has been a surge of interest in exploring Rumi’s conceptualization of homeland in his poetry. However, albeit inconclusively, to our knowledge,...
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Conceptualizations of Time in Persian Culture: Worldview Metaphors
Despite an increasing interest in conceptual metaphors on the one hand, and the growth of the implementation of Cultural Linguistics’ framework in...
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Cultural Conceptualizations of Power in the Serbian Language
This chapter identifies and determines cultural conceptualizations in Serbian as regards the concept of power. The qualitative analysis is based on...
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Natural Semantic Metalanguage Versus Polish Ethnolinguistic School
This article shows the convergences and the discrepancies between the two approaches to studying linguistic meaning (both allied to what may be...
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Cultural Linguistics in Human-Nature Interaction: Different Layers of Conceptualization
There has been growing interest in cultural linguistics (CL) in recent years; however, there is a dearth of studies exclusively analyzing...
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Discourses and Counter-Discourses on Female Sexual Behavior in Ghana
In this paper, we explore the discourses and counter-discourses that characterize contemporary Ghanaian ethos regarding female sexual behavior. Under...
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Grief and Sadness in Polish and English: Cultural Cognitive Linguistic Profiles
This chapter investigates the cultural cognitive linguistic profiles of the concepts of grief in English and its possible equivalents żal “regret,”...
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Cultural Schemas, Evaluation, and the Socio-moral Order
In this chapter, we explore the relationship between pragmatics and culture from the perspective of the socio-moral order, considering Sharifian’s...
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Pragmatic Learnability of Formulaic Expressions Among Persian-Speaking Learners of L2 English
Second language pragmatic research has shown that the acquisition of formulaic expressions is relatively problematic for learners at almost all...
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Cultural Linguistics: Some Disciplinary and Terminological Considerations
Without a doubt, not only through numerous landmark publications (e.g., Sharifian 2003, 2011, 2015, 2017a, b), Farzad Sharifian has shaped the field...
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Farzad Sharifian’s Linguistics Applied to the Black Lives Matter Movement in the United States
Cultural linguistics as developed by Farzad Sharifian offers a framework for studies of public discourse. Much of the meaning of discourse is...