World Englishes

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ISBN: 9783110196337 | 3110196336
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Copyright: 1/15/2009

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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.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Approaches to world Englishes: Paradigms, positions, and perspectives	p. 1
Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of world Englishes	p. 1
The world Englishes paradigm	p. 2
Dominant perspectives in world Englishes research	p. 2
The English studies approach	p. 4
The English corpus linguistics approach	p. 4
The sociolinguistic approach	p. 5
Pidgins and creole studies	p. 8
The lexicographical approach	p. 9
Applied linguistics approaches	p. 10
"Common errors" studies	p. 11
The "ecology of language" approach	p. 12
Critical linguistic approaches	p. 13
The generativist approach	p. 14
"Popularizers" and "futurologists"	p. 14
A critical appraisal of the world Englishes paradigm	p. 15
A critical assessment of the descriptivist approach to world Englishes	p. 16
A critical assessment of the critical approach to world Englishes	p. 20
A critical assessment of hybridizationism	p. 26
The Cognitive Linguistic paradigm and the study of language variation	p. 28
Cultural conceptualization research	p. 29
Cultural script research	p. 35
Cultural keyword research	p. 36
Social cognition research	p. 39
Sociolinguistic metatheory research	p. 43
Scope, methodology, and the empirical basis of our study	p. 47
The cultural model of community in African English: A comparative account	p. 57
Analytical tools: Conceptual metaphor, cultural models, conceptual networks	p. 57
Aspects of the African community model	p. 72
The reference point of the kinship-based community model	p. 72
Relations of group membership: The identity dimension	p. 77
Relations of mutual obligations: The nurture dimension	p. 91
Spiritual relations: The cosmological dimension	p. 101
Relations of tensions: The occult dimension	p. 120
Interim summary	p. 158
The African community model and politics	p. 159
Summary and implications of the analysis	p. 178
Reflections on the study of intercultural communication	p. 183
Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study of intercultural communication	p. 183
Some general problems with current functionalist pragmatics	p. 183
Gadamer's hermeneutics and Cognitive Linguistics	p. 184
Foci of a hermeneutic approach to intercultural communication and a critique of functionalist positions	p. 188
The Emphasis on meaning	p. 188
The recognition of conceptualizations at group level	p. 195
Emphasis on succeeding communication	p. 201
Intercultural understanding and the problem of relativism	p. 202
Concluding remarks	p. 207
Conclusion	p. 209
Dictionary sample	p. 211
Questionnaire	p. 221
References	p. 227
Index	p. 275
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