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This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of scholars from a variety of disciplines – history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and the study of popular culture – to examine the many forms and modes in which political humor is expressed in modern China: films, cartoons, the visual arts, oral performances and online satire.

Chinese wit and humor --- Chinese wit and humor, Pictorial --- Satire, Chinese --- History and criticism. --- Chinese satire --- Chinese literature --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Cultural studies. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Anthropological linguistics.

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Eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here - the stuff of departmental and family legends - are published publicly for the first time.

Linguistics --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Fieldwork. --- Methodology. --- History --- E-books

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This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the world of the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century and cognitive science in the beginning of the 21st century has brought us through various stages of natural human language analysis and comprehension – from deep structures, transformational grammar and behaviorism to cognitive linguistics, theory of encapsulation, and mentalism. Thus drawing upon new developments in cognitive science, philosophy and hermeneutics, the author reveals how to observe the real meaning lurking behind the spoken word and as a result, how to act more rationally. Applying methodology introduced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Martin Heidegger, the author examines how to see the ‘living’ and dynamic essence of speech hidden in the world of linear linguistic strings and casual utterances. This uniquely researched work will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of cognitive stylistic, pragmatics and the psychology of speech. .

Speech --- Philosophy. --- Talking --- Language and languages --- Oral communication --- Phonetics --- Voice --- Psycholinguistics. --- Phonology. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Linguistics --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Language and languages-Style. --- Phonology and Phonetics. --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Philosophy of Language. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Stylistics. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Psychological aspects --- Language and languages—Philosophy. --- Language and languages—Style. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Phonology --- Anthropological linguistics.

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This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest Cultural Linguistic findings, employing spatial semantics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and ethnography.  The book addresses key questions including: How is nature conceptualized by a folk cultural group? How are emotions and other mental states expressed via nature imagery with respect to metaphors and construal schemas? The author argues that folksongs reflect the Hungarian peasant communities’ specific treatment of emotions, captured in an underlying cultural schema ‘reservedness.’ This schema is grounded in principals of morality and tradition, and governs the various levels of representation. The main topics discussed are related to two core issues: cultural metaphors and cultural sche mas of construal in folksongs. It provides a detailed example, based on over 1000 folksongs, of how a cultural group’s cognition can be analyzed and better understood through a representative corpus-based linguistic approach. The research is also pioneering in constructing a comprehensive analysis framework adapted to folk poetry, and offers an example of how cultural conceptualizations can be investigated in various discourse types. Last but not least, the book offers insights into the work of Hungarian linguists and folklorists concerning cultural conceptualizations, which have largely been unavailable in English.

Hungarian language --- Folk songs, Hungarian. --- Comparative linguistics. --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Social aspects. --- Hungarian ballads and songs --- Hungarian folk songs --- Magyar language --- Finno-Ugric languages --- Linguistics. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Language and Literature. --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Historical linguistics. --- Philology. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- History

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This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment. In doing so, it reveals fresh insights into the changes taking place in urban British English, and into the difficulties of undertaking ethnographic, sociolinguistic research in a challenging context using a combination of methods and approaches. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and education; as well as providing a valuable resource for teachers and trainees.

Urban dialects. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Linguistic change. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Dialects, Urban --- Urbanisms (Linguistics) --- Cities and towns --- Dialectology --- Languages in contact --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Variation --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Language and languages—Study and teaching. --- Slang. --- Ethnography. --- Language Change. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Language Education. --- Slang and Jargon. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Argot --- Colloquial language --- Cant --- Obscene words --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- English language Slang --- Slang --- English language --- Urban youth --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Ethnology.