Chapter 1. Cultural Linguistics: The state of the art (Farzad Sharifian) -- Chapter 2. Cultural Conceptualisations in Humorous Discourse in English and Serbian (Diana Prodanović-Stankić) -- Chapter 3. Cultural Conceptualizations of Death in Taiwanese Buddhist and Christian Eulogistic idioms (Wei-lun Lu) -- Chapter 4. Life as Opera: A cultural metaphor in Chinese (Ning Yu) -- Chapter 5. Cultur…