1 Language as a part of culture 25
2 Language as the carrier of culture 26
3 Language as the condensate of culture 28
4 Cultural semantics of the lexicon at the synchronic level: Type I 42
5 Cultural semantics of the lexicon at the synchronic level: Type II 43
6 Five cultural factors that influence the lexicon 44
7 The Triangle of Meaning diagram by Ogden and Richards (1923:13) 49
8 Identification criteria for an item with a cultural meaning 76
9 Cognition of the meaning of huímǎqiāng
10 Cognition of the meaning of gāotánɡ
11 Cultural seme in the framework of seme analysis 117
12 The relationship between conceptual gap items and generic items 138