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"This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relationships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The chapters address themes, processes, approaches, and research methodologies drawn from examples in Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Ukraine. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning, community development, artistic intervention, and public participation in cultural mapping--recognizing that public involvement and artistic practices introduce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process, from the gathering of data, to interpreting data, to presenting 'findings' to a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situate the practice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally"--Provided by publisher

"Cultural Linguistics" -- "Editorial page" -- "Title page" -- "LCC data" -- "Table of contents" -- "List of figures" -- "About the author" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Preface" -- "Note on transliteration conventions of Persian transcripts" -- "Chapter 1. Cultural Linguistics: An overview" -- "1.1 Cultural Linguistics" -- "1.2 The theoretical framework of Cultural Linguistics" -- "1.3 The analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics" -- "1.4 An assessment of Cultural Linguistics" -- "Chapter 2. Cultural conceptualisations and language: The analytical framework" -- "2.1 Cultural schemas" -- "2.2 Cultural categories" -- "2.3 Cultural metaphors" -- "2.3.1 Cultural metaphors relating to the Land" -- "2.3.2 Cultural metaphors relating to Medicine" -- "2.3.3 Creative cultural metaphors" -- "2.3.4 The cognitive processing continuum of cultural metaphors" -- "2.4 Concluding remarks" -- "Chapter 3. Embodied cultural metaphors" -- "3.1 Embodiment and embodied cognition" -- "3.2 Conceptualisations relating to del in contemporary Persian" -- "3.3 Del in psychological, intellectual, and person-bound concepts" -- "3.3.1 del as the seat of emotions, feelings, and desires" -- "3.3.2 del as the centre of thoughts and memories" -- "3.3.3 del as the centre of personality traits, character, and mood" -- "3.3.4 Summary" -- "3.4 Cultural conceptualisations behind the notion of del" -- "3.5 Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) and temperature terms in Persian" -- "3.6 Concluding remarks" -- "Chapter 4. Research methods in Cultural Linguistics" -- "4.1 Conceptual-associative analysis" -- "4.2 Conceptual analysis of story recounts" -- "4.3 (Meta)discourse analysis" -- "4.4 Corpus-based analysis" -- "4.5 Ethnographic-conceptual text/visual analysis" -- "4.6 Diachronic/synchronic conceptual analysis" -- "4.7 Concluding remarks

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the theoretical and analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics, elaborating on its key theoretical/analytical notions of cultural cognition, cultural schema, cultural category, and cultural metaphor. In addition, it brings to light a wide array of cultural conceptualisations drawn from many different languages and language varieties. The book reveals how the analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics can produce in-depth and insightful investigations into the cultural grounding of language in several domains and subdisciplines, including embodiment, emotion, religion, World Englishes, pragmatics, intercultural communication, Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL), and political discourse analysis. By presenting a comprehensive survey of recent research in Cultural Linguistics, this book demonstrates the relevance of the cultural conceptualisations encoded in language to all aspects of human life, from the very conceptualisations of life and death, to conceptualisations of emotion, body, humour, religion, gender, kinship, ageing, marriage, and politics. This book, in short, is a must-have reference work for scholars and students interested in Cultural Linguistics.

"David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research, adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and internationally. They contextualise these discussions with an exploration of what both 'culture' and 'policy' mean when they are joined together as cultural policy. Drawing on topical examples and contemporary research, as well as their own experience in both academia and in consultancy, Bell and Oakley urge readers to think critically about the project of cultural policy as it is currently being played out around the world. Cultural Policy is a comprehensive and readable book that provides a lively, up-to-date overview of key debates in cultural policy, making it ideal for students of media and cultural studies, creative and cultural industries, and arts management"--