World Englishes : a cognitive sociolinguistic approach / by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen.
Material type: TextSeries: Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 8.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9781282073128
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- English language -- Variation -- Africa
- Cognitive grammar
- Intercultural communication -- Africa
- Sociolinguistics -- Africa
- English language -- Africa
- Africa -- Languages -- Influence on English
- Anglais (Langue) -- Variation -- Afrique
- Sociolinguistique -- Afrique
- Grammaire cognitive
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General
- English language
- Cognitive grammar
- English language -- Variation
- Intercultural communication
- Sociolinguistics
- Africa
- Kulturkontakt
- Sprachvariante
- Kognitive Linguistik
- Soziolinguistik
- Afrika
- Englisch
- 427/.96 22
- PE3401 .W65 2009eb
- HF 560
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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.
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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