the theoretical/analytical frameworks and their applications in several areas of applied linguistics including intercultural communication, cross-cultural/intercultural pragmatics, world englishes, teaching english as an international language (teil), and political discourse analysis are the subject of sharifian’s monographs entitled "cultural conceptualisations and language" (john benjamins, 2011) and "cultural linguistics" (john benjamins, 2017). these books have widely been recognised as laying "solid theoretical and analytical grounds for what can be recognised as cultural linguistics". (alexandra bagasheva, in the journal of "language and cognition", vol. 4:3 (2012), pp. 243–249).