Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Space and Time in Natural Language
Chapter 2. Politicians on Drugs: Functions of Political
Metaphor across Culture
Chapter 3. Rendering Metaphor in Reported Speech
Chapter 4. Between Relativism and Truth: Jean Baudrillard,
the Sokal Affair, and the Use of Scientific Terminology across
Cultural Boundaries
Chapter 5. Nationalism and Culture: Some Reflections on the
Construction of National Languages
Chapter 6. Language, Culture, and Gender Identities:
Examining Arguments about Marriage
Chapter 7. Management, Culture, and Discourse in
International Business
Chapter 8. Emotion and Labor in Cultural Comparison
Chapter 9. From "Ulla Ulla" to "Cosmic Linguistics": On
Alien Language and Culture in Science Fiction
Chapter 10. Intercultural Competence: Theories into
Practice
Magda Stroinska teaches in the Department of Modern Languages, McMaster University.
"This volume is ... a flashlight offering some interesting and unexpected explorations of the diversity and complexity of the linguistic representation of culture." · Discours & Society "An interesting book ... The diversity of approaches contained in it and the accessibility lent by its focus on English and Indo-European languages should encourage its use in graduate seminars across several fields of study." · Language in Society
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