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Intercultural Semantics: Meaning-Making, Metalanguage, and Migration

Intercultural Semantics: Meaning-Making, Metalanguage, and Migration

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

Linguistics

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 3, 2027

ISBN10: 1041081383
ISBN13: 9781041081388
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 3 2027
Pages: 248
Language: English

This volume sets out a new framework for intercultural semantics, an innovative approach to making sense of the complexities of meaning-making in language encounters through the lens of migration.

The book moves beyond structuralist approaches and research on English as an international language for a meaning-centered perspective to the study of language and communication. With language migrants moving from one linguistic sphere to another in which their lives and livelihoods depend on acquiring new languages, the volume makes the case for a new framework that bridges diverse sub-disciplines across linguistics with that of semantic work on meaning to better understand these realities. The first section introduces the theoretical foundations, drawing on work from migration linguistics, linguistic worldview, and cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics. The second part highlights case studies across different domains in the Danish context, from children in society to the workplace to interpersonal relationships to climate and the environment, with implications for other geographic contexts. The final section addresses the metalinguistic, idiomatic, technological, and intercultural challenges of intercultural semantics toward outlining future directions for this area of study.

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