World Englishes : A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach Book

1 Approaches to world Englishes: Paradigms, positions, and perspectives 1

1.1 Cognitive Linguistics and the study of world Englishes 1

1.2 The world Englishes paradigm 2

1.3 The Cognitive Linguistic paradigm and the study of language variation 28

1.4 Scope, methodology, and the empirical basis of our study 47

2 The cultural model of community in African English: A comparative account 57

2.1 Analytical tools: Conceptual metaphor, cultural models, conceptual networks 57

2.3 Interim summary 158

2.4 The African community model and politics 159

2.5 Summary and implications of the analysis 178

3 Reflections on the study of intercultural communication 183

3.1 Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study of intercultural communication 183

3.2 Foci of a hermeneutic approach to intercultural communication and a critique of functionalist positions 188

3.3 Intercultural understanding and the problem of relativism 202

3.4 Concluding remarks 207

4 Conclusion 209

App. 1 Dictionary sample 211

App. 2 Questionnaire 221

References 227

Index 275