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100 1 0 _aSherzer, Joel
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245 0 0 _aA Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture
260 _c2012.
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520 _aThe Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, as usually formulated, searches for isomorphisms between grammar and culture and views language as either providing the means for thought and perception, or, in its stronger form, conditioning thought, perception, and world view. In this article I consider discourse to be the concrete expression of language-culture relationships. It is discourse that creates, recreates, focuses, modifies, and transmits both culture and language and their intersection, and it is especially in verbally artistic and playful discourse, such as poetry, magic, verbal dueling, and political rhetoric, that the resources provided by grammar, as well as cultural meanings and symbols, are activated to their fullest potential and the essence of language-culture relationships become salient.
690 _aHymes
690 _averbal art
690 _aSapir-Whorf Hypothesis
690 _apoetics
690 _agrammar
690 _adiscourse
786 0 _nLangage et société | o 139 | 1 | 2012-03-01 | p. 21-45 | 0181-4095
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-langage-et-societe-2012-1-page-21?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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