ISBN:
3110196336
,
9783110196337
,
9783110199222
,
9781282073128
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 278 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Applications of cognitive linguistics 8
Parallel Title:
Print version World Englishes : A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Intercultural communication
;
English language Variation
;
Cognitive grammar
;
English language
;
Sociolinguistics
;
applied linguistics English /language
;
sociolinguistics
;
Cognitive Linguistics
;
Africa Languages
;
Influence on English
;
Englisch
;
Afrika
;
Sprachvariante
;
Kognitive Linguistik
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Kulturkontakt
Abstract:
The book presents Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for the study of cultural variation in world Englishes and within languages in general by offering a corpus-based analysis of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English. It also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and positions Cognitive Linguistics within a wider hermeneutic tradition. Hans-Georg Wolf, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong; Frank Polzenhagen, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
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. The findings, based on computer corpora and a range of additional sources, are discussed against the background of work in anthropology, religious studies, and political science. The book also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and concludes with a comparison of Cognitive Linguistics and pragmatic functionalism, placing the former in the wider framework of a hermeneutic philosophy that stresses dialogic understanding.
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1. Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study ofintercultural communication3.2. 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-273) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199222
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