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World Englishes: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach

World Englishes: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach

Polzenhagen, Frank
Wolf, Hans-Georg

Hardcover

Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [Acl], Book 8

Linguistics

ISBN10: 3110196336
ISBN13: 9783110196337
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jan 21 2009
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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 exemplar for the investigation of cultural models in other varieties of English. Corpus-linguistic methods are combined with conceptual metaphor analysis and blending theory to elucidate a vast network of conceptualizations salient to speakers of African English.

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