Project description

Grammar is thick with cultural meaning. This book explores the connections between Nordic language and Nordic life by tapping into the constructions that speakers use frequently in everyday life. Following the idea that "grammar is cultural", the book delves into key domains of Nordic living, tracing the specificity of "social", "environmental" and "secular" grammars of the Nordics.

Short bio

Carsten Levisen works in the fields of sociocultural linguistics and linguistic anthropology. He specializes in semantics and pragmatics, discourse studies and enjoy doing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work. He is an associate professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the author of two monograhps “Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition”, and “Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World”, both published by DeGruyter Mouton.