Phraseology and Culture in English

The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110190877
• ISBN13: 9783110190878
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary