INTERCULTURAL LINGUISTICS. A SURVEY

The present paper is based on the recognition that despite the substantial role that has been ascribed to interculturality in numerous disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, no culture-centred linguistic paradigm has been delineated so far. Hence, the aim of this contribution is to develop or at least sketch the most important aspects of the horizon, outline and guidelines of an explicitly inter-, respectively transcultural linguistic thinking, to formulate questions concerning its subject matter, as well as to specify potential ways and aspects of academic research, thus planning a possible profile and dimensions of an inter- and transcultural 'paradigm' of linguistics.