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Karen Risager, Language and culture: Global flows and local complexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2008

Neeta Bhasin
Neeta Bhasin
Affiliation:
Department of Writing and Rhetoric, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
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Karen Risager, Language and culture: Global flows and local complexity. (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education 11.) Buffalo: Multilingual Matters, 2006. Pp. x, 212. Pb $44.95.

Karen Risager seeks to challenge the traditional linguistic orthodoxy that views language and culture as inseparable. The goal of her new book is to establish that language and culture are not necessarily linked and can be analyzed separately. Risager maintains that while languages may be psychologically related to a particular culture and cultural experiences of individuals, they are sociologically separate from other cultural phenomena. She takes a refreshingly new and insightful approach by formulating the critical issues facing language and culture pedagogy and language teaching, and then giving them their due consideration. The implications of Risager's theory and analysis are indeed noteworthy and extensive.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Information
Language in Society , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 127 - 131
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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