TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolf,Hans-Georg
AU  - Polzenhagen,Frank
TI  - World Englishes: a cognitive sociolinguistic approach 
T2  - Applications of cognitive linguistics,
SN  - 9783110199222
AV  - PE3401 .W65 2009eb
U1  - 427/.96 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - English language
KW  - Variation
KW  - Africa
KW  - Cognitive grammar
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Anglais (Langue)
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Sociolinguistique
KW  - Grammaire cognitive
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Kulturkontakt
KW  - gnd
KW  - Sprachvariante
KW  - Kognitive Linguistik
KW  - Soziolinguistik
KW  - Languages
KW  - Influence on English
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Englisch
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-273) and index; Frontmatter; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1.1. Cognitive Linguistics and the study of world Englishes; 1.2. The world Englishes paradigm; 1.3. The Cognitive Linguistic paradigm and the study of language variation; 1.4. Scope, methodology, and empirical basis of our study; 2.1. Analytical tools: Conceptual metaphor, cultural models, conceptual networks; 2.2. Aspects of the African community model; 2.3. Interim summary; 2.4. The African community model and politics; 2.5. Summary and implications of the analysis; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes. The authors survey the main tenets of both areas of linguistic enquiry and suggest that the theoretical and methodological apparatus developed both within Cognitive Linguistics generally and within its novel sub-discipline Cognitive Sociolinguistics can overcome certain limitations inherent in traditional approaches to cultural variation in language. They present a case study of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English as an ex
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