Publications

Publication details [#51446]

Bobda, Augustin Simo. 2009. The meaning of English words across cultures, with a focus on Cameroon and Hong Kong. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 30 (5) : 375–389.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | interpretation | language and culture | lexicography | meaning

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article explores in what ways cultural knowledge and in particular the traditional World Englishes structural schema, contribute to the interpretation of English lexical items across cultures, especially in Hong Kong and Cameroon.