By Wolf, Hans-Georg
The booklet provides Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for the research of cultural edition in international Englishes and inside of languages generally via providing a corpus-based research of the linguistic consciousness of the cultural version of neighborhood in African English. It additionally displays at the position of English in intercultural verbal exchange and positions Cognitive Linguistics inside a much broader hermeneutic culture.
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And the discussion in chapter 3. Approaches to world Englishes 25 did not provide the lexical resources required to deal with the environment in these settings, and failed to sufficiently develop such resources. , the extinction of indigenous species (cf. 28 The full implications of his argument become apparent when he states that it takes about 300 years for a language to develop the necessary lexical resources to deal adequately with the environment (Mühlhäusler 1996b: 128). , of marsupials as bush rat or native rat, which, as he states, “having got that name were regarded very much like a rat in Britain: at best useless, at worst dangerous pests that needed to be eradicated” (our emphasis).
The following slightly modified excerpt from Malcolm and Rochecouste’s (2000: 278-279) analysis may serve as an illustration of this approach. Passages that are instantiations of the hunting and the traveling schema, respectively, are marked in bold face; italics indicate the discourse markers associated with the schema; the glosses in square brackets identify the relevant schema or the discourse marker. 1. My name is Dean Samuel. 2. And … couple o months back… [Time orientation] 3. Um … me an’ my dad…my brother… and my uncle…Normie … [Participant.
No principled dividing line is drawn between “linguistic semantics” and “world knowledge” (cf. , Langacker 2002: 1). Culture, then, is not an external category in linguistic investigations; rather, it is an integral dimension of it. In particular, it is a central tenet of CS, as we understand it, that the conceptual content an item has for a particular socio-cultural group needs to be taken into account in studies on language variation. 18 17 18 The narrow emphasis on “form” is also prominent in discussions of “international English” and in studies on the “intelligibility” of L2-speakers of English.