World Englishes : : A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach / / Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Wolf, Hans-Georg,; Polzenhagen, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

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 Lingui...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• Preface
• 1. Approaches to world Englishes: Paradigms, positions, and perspectives
• 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. The cultural model of community in African English: A comparative account
• 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
• 3. Reflections on the study of intercultural communication
• 3.1. Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study ofintercultural communication
• 3.2. Foci of a hermeneutic approach to intercultural communication and a critique of functionalist positions
• 3.3. Intercultural understanding and the problem of relativism
• 3.4. Concluding remarks
• Backmatter