Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies
Edited by Monika Reif and Frank Polzenhagen
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 103] 2023. v, 210 pp. + index
Frank Polzenhagen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Frank Polzenhagen plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:2 (2017) v, 152 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023. Introduction. Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies, Reif, Monika and Frank Polzenhagen (eds.), pp. 1–14
Chapter
2022. Reconsidering accounts of the grammaticalization of auxiliaries: The cases of be-going-to and have-perfect. Figurative Thought and Language in Action, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 113–140
The present paper re-addresses two standard examples of grammaticalization research, i.e. the development of the be-going-to form and the evolution of the English have-perfect. Analyzing these two forms in communion is motivated by the fact that they express conceptual patterns that are mirror… read more | Chapter
2017. Matrimonial adverts in Indian English: Notes on the contextualisation of a text type. Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters (eds.), pp. 170–196
Our paper readdresses the Kachruvian notion of ‘contextualisation’ from a cultural-linguistic/cognitive-sociolinguistic perspective. We provide an exemplary analysis along these lines, using data from a corpus of Indian-English matrimonial advertisements as our empirical basis. Taking the… read more | Article
2017. Cultural linguistic contributions to World Englishes: Introduction to the Special Issue. Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters (eds.), pp. 121–126
Editorial
2016. Review of Kövecses (2015): Where Metaphors Come From: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:1, pp. 163–169
Review
2014. Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English. Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use, Pütz, Martin, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif (eds.), pp. 133–160
The recent decades have witnessed the incorporation of new linguistic trends into lexicography. One of these trends is a usage-based approach, with the first major application of computer-corpus data in the Collins COBUILD English dictionary (1995) and successive adaptation in other L1-dictionaries. read more | Article
2012. Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English. Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use, Pütz, Martin, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif (eds.), pp. 373–400
The recent decades have witnessed the incorporation of new linguistic trends into lexicography. One of these trends is a usage-based approach, with the first major application of computer-corpus data in the Collins COBUILD English dictionary (1995) and successive adaptation in other L1-dictionaries. read more | Article
2007. 8. Culture-specific conceptualisations of corruption in African English: Linguistic analyses and pragmatic applications. Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication, Sharifian, Farzad † and Gary B. Palmer (eds.), pp. 125–168
In this chapter, we provide a cultural-linguistic analysis of African English expressions from the domains of political leadership, wealth, and corruption, with a special emphasis on the latter. It is an application of theoretical concepts developed in Cognitive Linguistics and cognitive… read more | Chapter
2005. Review of Skandera (2003): Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English. English World-Wide 26:1, pp. 104–111
Review article