<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In the paper, we address the question of the relation between language and culture from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. While accounting for the role of language as an aid to cultural transmission in maintaining the community’s conceptual order, we address the question of whether the concept of a linguistic worldview aptly captures the interplay between language and culture. We suggest that, due to cumulative cultural evolution spurred by the incessant development of human knowledge, layers of conceptualisations accumulate over time. It is proposed that this palimpsest of conceptualisations results from human interaction that transcends the constraints of the present moment, encompassing the past and present, as well as delineating possible developments of the community’s future conceptual order.</p></abstract>

In the paper, we address the question of the relation between language and culture from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. While accounting for the role of language as an aid to cultural transmission in maintaining the community’s conceptual order, we address the question of whether the concept of a linguistic worldview aptly captures the interplay between language and culture. We suggest that, due to cumulative cultural evolution spurred by the incessant development of human knowledge, layers of conceptualisations accumulate over time. It is proposed that this palimpsest of conceptualisations results from human interaction that transcends the constraints of the present moment, encompassing the past and present, as well as delineating possible developments of the community’s future conceptual order.

Language As a Memory Carrier Of Perceptually-Based Knowledge. Selected Aspects Of Imagery In Chaucer’s <italic>Knight’s Tale</italic> And <italic>Troilus</italic> And <italic>Criseyde</italic>

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Language As a Memory Carrier Of Perceptually-Based Knowledge. Selected Aspects Of Imagery In Chaucer’s  And  And 

In the paper, we address the question of the relation between language and culture from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. While accounting for the role of...

Language As a Memory Carrier Of Perceptually-Based Knowledge. Selected Aspects Of Imagery In Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale And Troilus And Criseyde

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Page range: 127 - 141

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0024

Keywords
language and culture, linguistic worldview, memory carrier

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Language As a Memory Carrier Of Perceptually-Based Knowledge. Selected Aspects Of Imagery In Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale And Troilus And Criseyde

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Page range: 127 - 141

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0024

Keywordslanguage and culture, linguistic worldview, memory carrier

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
language and culture, linguistic worldview, memory carrier