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The multilingual situation in Cameroon and the status of English as
a co-official language constitute a unique and fascinating case for
sociolinguistic investigation. Drawing from first-hand material,
the author investigates several aspects of this complex
configuration, including the historical development of English in
Cameroon, the various languages and lingua franca areas, the
linguistic policy, the de facto status of English and the situation
in the anglophone provinces. The speech community of the
Anglophones is highlighted as a rare example of an ethnicity tied
to the second language. Apart from important sociolinguistic
findings, the work includes a novel, corpus-based analysis of
Cameroon English. Certain lexical phenomena are explained by the
cognitive coding of culture - particularly the African cultural
model of community, which also underlies the self-perception of the
Anglophones - a perspective hitherto neglected in the study of the
New Englishes.
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 to cultural variation in language. They
present a case study of the linguistic realization of the cultural
model of community in African English as an exemplar for the
investigation of cultural models in other varieties of English.
Corpus-linguistic methods are combined with conceptual metaphor
analysis and blending theory to elucidate a vast network of
conceptualizations salient to speakers of African English. The
findings, based on computer corpora and a range of additional
sources, are discussed against the background of work in
anthropology, religious studies, and political science. The book
also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication
and concludes with a comparison of Cognitive Linguistics and
pragmatic functionalism, placing the former in the wider framework
of a hermeneutic philosophy that stresses dialogic understanding.
Published in 1983, Wolf and Rosenstein have delved into the poetry
writings in detail of Cercamon and Jaufre Rudel, with detailed
textual notes on the poems, exploring the individual poets' lives
and looking at the translation of the writings.
Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of
leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central
Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and
Russian as major languages. The volume locates English inside a
number of national, regional or lingua franca contexts and
illustrates the way it develops in such contact situations. Local
dynamics affecting languages in contact and cultural links of
languages are dealt with, such as educational-political issues and
tensions between conflicting norms. In today's global world, where
the continent is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to
explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through
English and other languages. This important new study will be of
interest to students and researchers working in the fields of
regional studies, English as a global language, Asian languages and
cultural studies.
Published in 1983, Wolf and Rosenstein have delved into the poetry
writings in detail of Cercamon and Jaufre Rudel, with detailed
textual notes on the poems, exploring the individual poets' lives
and looking at the translation of the writings.
The Meaning of the Earth offers a retrospective on the work and
lives of the relentlessly controversial artists Gilbert &
George, connecting their beginnings as Living Sculptures to their
pictorial work of today. As Living Sculptures, Gilbert & George
offered two pieces of advice to their live audiences every morning:
‘Sit on the edge of your bed and think, “What do I want to say
to the world today?”’ and ‘Fuck the teachers!’ The Meaning
of the Earth offers a retrospective on the lives and work of the
relentlessly controversial artists, placing them within the context
of twentieth century British culture. Wolf Jahn tells the story of
how Gilbert & George found their identity in opposition to
pervasive ideas around social conformity and religion after meeting
in 1967. The artists staged an internal revolution, mining their
psyches to create visionary and unwaveringly modern art. The ‘two
people but one artist’ ask the questions that gnaw at us all:
‘Where do we come from?’, ‘Who are we?’ and ‘Where are we
going?’ The book meditates on the artists’ role in this
century, connecting their beginnings as Living Sculptures to their
pictorial work of today. The Meaning of the Earth is a continuation
of Jahn’s 1989 work, The Art of Gilbert & George. The author
writes a playful philosophical interrogation of Gilbert &
George’s work that truly grasps its cosmic scale.
George C. Wolfe's iconic play on the black experience of the 1980s.
The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted
audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to
be black in contemporary America. Its eleven "exhibits" undermine
black stereotypes old and new, and return to the facts of what
being black means. " Mr. Wolfe is the kind of satirist who takes no
prisoners. The shackles of the past have been defied by Mr. Wolfe's
fearless humor, and it's a most liberating revolt!" - Frank Rich,
The New York Times; "Brings forth a bold new voice that is bound to
shake up blacks and whites with separate-but-equal impartiality.
True satire." - Jack Kroll, Newsweek.
Since the explosion of multimedia, the creation and promotion of
multimedia clusters has become a target for regional development
strategies across the globe. This work offers the first
inter-regional comparison of the multimedia industry.
Analysing thirteen American, European and Asian regions, leading
academics examine factors which drive the emergence of multimedia
clusters and processes by which they are formed,
The volume is a Festschrift for Franz Hundsnurscher and is
published to coincide with his 65th birthday. It contains 47
articles focussing on two subjects of central moment in the work of
Franz Hundsnurscher: semantics and dialogue analysis. The first
section assembles contributions both on fundamental semantic issues
and on the semantic description of idiomatic expressions, the use
of FremdwArter in German, and basic vocabulary. Alongside
synchronic (mostly usage-theoretical) studies on individual words
and quasi-synonyms in German there are also articles of a
historical and contrastive nature. The studies in the second
section concentrate on theoretical and methodological questions
posed by dialogue analysis and issues in the analysis of
institutional communication (politics, law, economics) and literary
dialogue.
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