Language and Culture

Language and Culture
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Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9781853598586
ISBN-13 : 1853598585
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Book Synopsis Language and Culture by : Karen Risager

Download or read book Language and Culture written by Karen Risager and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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