Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of tables, List of figures xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Part 1. Theoretical framework
7. Chapter 1. On cultural conceptualisations 3
8. Chapter 2. Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language 19
9. Chapter 3. On collective cognition and language 35
10. Part 2. Case studies - cultural conceptualisations in Aboriginal languages
11. Chapter 4. Aboriginal language habitat and cultural continuity 47
12. Chapter 5. Cultural conceptualisations in English words: A study of Aboriginal children in Perth 61
13. Part 3. Intercultural communication
14. Chapter 6. Cultural conceptualisations in intercultural communication: A study of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians 79
15. Chapter 7. Cultural conceptualisations in English as an international language (EIL) 93
16. Chapter 8. Cultural schemas and intercultural communication: A study of Persian 101
17. Part 4. Cross-cultural pragmatics
18. Chapter 9. The Persian cultural schema of Shekasteh-Nafsi: Cultural schemas in compliment responses in Persian and Anglo-Australian speakers 111
19. Chapter 10. Semantic and pragmatic conceptualisations within an emerging variety: Persian English 139
20. Part 5. Culture, body, self, and language
21. Chapter 11. Cultural conceptualisations of 'Self' and del 'heart/stomach' in Persian 157
22. Chapter 12. Conceptualisations of Cheshm 'eye' and 'perception' in Persian 179
23. Part 6. Political discourse
24. Chapter 13. Figurative language in international political discourse: The case of Iran 195
25. Chapter 14. Politics and/of translation: Case studies between Persian and English 209
26. Final words 219
27. References 221
28. Index 235