A Cognitive Linguistic approach to the cultures of World Englishes: The emergence of a new model

Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 353-385

  Wolf, Hans Georg ^a  

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Author keywords

African English; Australian Aboriginal English; Chinese English; Cognitive Sociolinguistics; Conceptual metaphor; Cultural Linguistics; Cultural model; Cultural schema; World Englishes paradigm

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