This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors ran

This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors ran

Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigation

Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and c