Ebook: World Englishes. A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach

Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. 278 p.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.