Cultural Linguistics revision

Linguistics focuses on ...

• the study of world languages

• the syntax of English

• the scientific study of language

• rules and conventions of language

What is culture and how it is related to language?

What is the main focus of Cultural Linguistics?

Cultural conceptualization is an umbrella term for ...

• the analytical tools developed within the field

• cultural schemas, cultural categories, and cultural metaphors

• the scientific study of Cultural Linguistics

• understanding cultures

Cultural Cognition

• relates merely to cognitive processes

• is heterogenous

• is dynamic

• is a static system

A conceptual metaphor

• is a cross-domain mapping

• refers to understanding one concept in terms of another

• is property of words

• is conscious and deliberate use of words

"How do you spend your time these days?" is

• a literal expression

• a metaphorical expression

• a metonymic expression

• an idiomatic expression

What should the selection of data and method follow in an empirical research?

What is a corpus?

• collection of texts

• collection of written texts

• collection of spoken texts

• collection of words

Discourse can be described as

• the use of a sentence beyond the level of the language

• the use of language beyond the level of the sentence

• the use of language beyond the level of the word