Language and culture studies: Wonderland through the linguistic looking glass

The paper examines how language might influence and be influenced by culture and what can be found out about a particular culture by studying its language by providing an overview of the relationship between the study of language and the study of culture. The common ground of their research interests is identified as language and society, language use, and language and thought, and illustrated with the relevant notions, findings and research from the disciplines such as anthropological linguistics ethno linguistics, socio linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis contrastive rhetoric, applied linguistics, and cognitive linguistics.