Use of Multiple Parallel Texts (Multi-ParT) as a Method in Cultural Linguistics: Stability and Variation of Viewpoint Strategies
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In this talk, I introduce use of multiple parallel texts (Multi-ParT henceforth; for details, see Lu et al. 2018; Lu 2019, 2020; Lu et al. 2020) as a means of studying cultural conceptualization, especially in terms of its stability and variation across languages. In the first half of my talk, I introduce the notion of cultural conceptualization as defined by Sharifian (2011, 2017), summarizing and evaluating the state-of-the-art in the field. In the second half, I apply Multi-ParT to the cross-linguistic dimension of viewpoint research in Cognitive Linguistics (Dancygier 2012; Dancygier et. al eds., 2016) and illustrate how Multi-ParT may help identify viewpoint strategies that are specific to Chinese (in comparison to English and potentially other languages), and how Multi-ParT helps us understand the stability and variation of the encoding of narrative viewpoint within the target language (which is Chinese in this case). |