Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives

The semantics of bushfire in Australian English

“…Bushfires are more likely during the hotter, drier months of summer in many regions of Australia, and spread more easily in winds. They burn in 'bush', a mass noun denoting vegetation, dominated by eucalypts, as an undifferentiated mass (Bromhead 2011(Bromhead , 2018. Fire is a natural part of some Australian ecosystems; a majority of Australia's plant species either need or tolerate fire (Gammage 2011).…”

“…Drawing on Anna Wierzbicka's pioneering Understanding Cultures through their Key Words (1997), Levisen and Waters (2017b) write that cultural keywords 'govern the shared cognitive outlook of speakers and encode certain culture-specific logics, and impose on their speakers a certain interpretative grid through which they make sense of the world' (2017b: 3). In Bromhead (2011Bromhead ( , 2018, I presented the bush as a cultural keyword in Australian English and touched on its productivity in the formation of compounds, one of which is bushfire. This word, also, has an amount of associated phraseology too vast to detail in any depth (see also Arthur 2003: 147-50).…”

“…Australian English can act as a mirror of conceptualisations of and attitudes towards extreme weather and climate events in the country, such as bushfires, drought, cyclones and floods. 1 This variety of English encodes specific local meanings; for example, in the domain of landscape, words like creek and bush have particular senses in Australian English (Arthur 2003;Bromhead 2018). Bushfire is an Australian word for an uncontrolled fire in dry trees and shrubs, an event that can threaten homes and people, as well as vegetation and wildlife.…”

Prototypes, polysemy and constructional semantics: The lexicogrammar of the English verb climb

“…Object noun phrases such as mountain, cliff face and hill are not fully compatible with climb 1 as explicated in [D] above: first, because mountains and the like are 'places (of one kind)', rather than things (in a place) (Bromhead 2018); and second, because the physical aspects and time frame of climbing a mountain, cliff face, etc. are significantly different-for example, it takes much longer and special equipment is often involved.…”

Ukrainian National Identity Through the Prism of a Big City Vitality: Conceptualising New York’s Cultural Landscape

“…Серія: Філологія. Соціальні комунікації New York's cultural landscape as represented in the Ukrainian poetry, the works by Carl O. Sauer [10], Vladimir Toporov [3] and Helen Bromhead [4] made a significant contribution to the research, serving as a methodological basis for the city's cultural landscape linguistic analysis.…”