Vol.3, No 1, 2004 pp. 1 - 15
UDC 81:008

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE STUDIES - WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LINGUISTIC LOOKING GLASS
Biljana Mišić Ilić
English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš
The paper examines how language might influence and be influenced by culture, and what can be found out about a particular culture by studying its language by providing an overview of the relationship between the study of language and the study of culture. The common ground of their research interests is identified as language and society, language use, and language and thought, and illustrated with the relevant notions, findings and research from the disciplines such as anthropological linguistics, ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, contrastive rhetoric, applied linguistics, and cognitive linguistics.
Key words:  Language and culture studies, language and society, language use, language and thought

PROUČAVANJE JEZIKA I KULTURE - ZEMLJA ČUDA U LINGVISTIČKOM OGLEDALU
Rad ispituje međusobni uticaj jezika i kulture i šta se o određenoj kulturi može saznati proučavanjem njenog jezika. Dat je pregled odnosa proučavanja jezika i proučavanja kulture i identifikovane su neke zajedničke osnove istraživačkih interesovanja - jezik i društvo, upotreba jezika i jezik i misao, što je i ilustrovano relevantnim pojmovima, saznanjima i istraživanjima iz lingvističkih disciplina kao što su antropološka lingvistika, etnolingvistika, sociolingvistika, pragmatika, analiza diskursa, kontrastivna retorika, primenjena lingvistika i kognitivna lingvistika.