LCCL is happy to announce the start of a joint publication project
“CONCEPTS ACROSS CULTURES: the Balkans and the Caucasus in focus.
How cultures frame the ways we see things, and how we transmit these ways to others.”
It brings experts from all parts of the world together and aims to explore methodological synergies of cognitive linguistic approaches and field research practices.
The general cognitive (-semantic) section I of the volume showcases established approaches to concept formation and concept sharing in several culturally and linguistically diversified ecologies. The empirical part of the volume is specifically dedicated to the two regions: the Balkans and the Caucasus. Both provide rich sources of empirical data on diverse manifestations of intercultural and interlingual interaction and a promising grass-root input for cognitive analyses. Both show exceptionally entangled linguistic, cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity and exhibit parallels in ecology and topography, hence, in common ways of sustainment, traditional family structures, etc.; in their pan-regional cultural and historical development shaping the collective memory and the image of oneself vs. the others; in multifaceted demographic (ethnic, religious, etc.) composition providing context for sustained intercultural and interlingual exchange. Section II sets both regions of study in contrast along several lines of investigation, providing context for a semiotic comparison and explores linguistic landscapes, cultural identities and cultural permeability, historical heritage, and frameworks of religious interactions. Section III comprises case studies addressing the two focal questions posed in the subtitle, and explores concepts in contexts and interactions, divided into two subsections: Patterns from the Balkans and Patterns from the Caucasus.
Researchers involved:
Katsiaryna Ackermann, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Alexandra Yu. Aikhenvald, Central Queensland University
Nick Enfield, The University of Sydney
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, NY University at Buffalo
Katharine Donelson, University of Nevada
Yen-Ting Lin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University
Victor A. Friedman, The University of Chicago and La Trobe University
Thede Kahl, University of Jena and Austrian Academy of Sciences
Ivan Biliarsky, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Mariam Chkhartishvili. Ivane Yavakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Christoph Giesel, University of Jena
Brian D. Joseph, Ohio State University
Gabriella Schubert, University of Jena
Jelena Pavlović Jovanović, University of Kragujevac
Milan Todorović, University of Kragujevac
Nataša Spasić, University of Kragujevac
Nebi Bardhoshi, Academy of Albanian Sciences
Milica Santa, University of Vienna
Lumnije Jusufi, Humboldt University
Blerta Ismajli, University of Prishtina
Kevin Tuite, University of Montreal
Diana Forker, University of Jena
Suren Zolyan, University of Yerevan
Zarina Molochieva, University of Kiel
Sahiba Muslumzada, University of Jena
