Contents
Preface
SECTION 1
Survey
1 The relationship of language and culture
1Nature,culture,language
2Communities of language users
3Imagined communities
4Insiders/outsiders
5Linguistic relativity
6The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
7Summary
2 Meaning as sign
8The linguistic sign
9The meaning of sings
10Cultural encodings
11Semantic cohesion
12The non-arbitrary nature of sings
13Symbols
14Summary
