Volume 56 (2025), Edition 1

This article is devoted to the various concepts of ‘practice’ which have increasingly found their way into the work of numerous disciplines under the premise of a practice turn in recent decades. In a first step, the concept is modelled...

This article defines materiality as a crucial dimension of social and cultural practices, framing it within three key contexts: the mediality connected to language (insofar as it brings forth cultural aspects), the conditions shaping the perception...

This article deals with ‘comparison’ as a concept and as a method in contributions to cultural linguistics. It briefly summarizes the history of comparative and contrastive approaches in linguistics and cultural linguistics in order to propose a...

The article first explores how the term function (‘Funktion’) is used in publications from cultural linguistics (‘Kulturlinguistik’). Although ‘function’ is a central category in cultural linguistics, there is surprisingly little...

Starting with a semiotic-praxeological and dialogistic understanding of ‘culture’, the paper explains three uses of ‘significance’ in culturally analytical oriented linguistic studies. Only briefly, a more general usage is outlined, before...

The aim of the article is to discuss the epistemological and practical research potential of the category of ‘mentality’ in the linguistic research tradition and to demonstrate its usefulness for cultural linguistics. The cultural linguistic...

This paper examines the notion of ‘power’, a term preferably used in social sciences and cultural studies, seeking to establish it as a relevant research object in cultural linguistics. Although the relationship between language and power is...