Reviewed Publication:
Sharifian, Farzad. Cultural Linguistics: Cultural Conceptualisations and language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017, xvii + 171 pp, $143. ISBN 9789027204110.
About the author
Jie Huang, PhD, is Associate Professor of Cognitive Linguistics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. Her research interests include metaphor, lexical semantics, and linguistic typology, with a focus on comparative studies of Chinese and English within the theoretic framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The overall goal of her research is to better understand the interaction between language, culture, and cognition. Her work has appeared in international journals such as Metaphor and Symbol and Australian Journal of Linguistics, and many top-rated peer-reviewed journals in China.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation (China) [Grant number 16BYY192].
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