Abstract

This book, written by Dr. Sadeghpour and the late Prof. Sharifian, field-defining scholars in Cultural Linguistics, consists of an overview and 16 chapters. It commences with an overview by the editors and the following chapters bring together an amalgam of 16 seminal studies, mostly Englishes in Asian countries by highly noted scholars; the book deals with the inspection of cultural conceptualizations underlying different varieties of English from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics plus analytical and theoretical frameworks from cultural cognition, conceptualization, and language to present the profound effects of cultural concepts on World Englishes (WEs). The chapters deploy, unravel, and expound on the analytical devices and theoretical advancements in several disciplines including “cognitive psychology, anthropology, distributed cognition, and complexity science” (p. 242).