Language and culture global flows and local complexity - Risager, Karen (Multilingual Matters, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212)
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Language and Culture in a Global Perspective; Chapter 2 Tour de France in German Language Teaching: A Preliminary Analysis; Chapter 3 The Concept of Culture: An Introduction; Chapter 4 Language, Nation and Culture: The German Tradition; Chapter 5 Cultural Complexity; Chapter 6 A Sociolinguistic View of Language; Chapter 7 Linguistic Flows and Linguistic Complexity; Chapter 8 Languacultural Dimensions; Chapter 9 Discourse and Double Intertextuality; Chapter 10 Cultural Contexts; Chapter 11 Cultural Contents
Presents a theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. This book shows that the fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks and across national communities