World Englishes: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach

by Frank Polzenhagen and Hans-Georg Wolf

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110196336
• ISBN13: 9783110196337
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary