Hans-Georg Wolf
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hans-Georg Wolf is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1879-8047
Journal
International Journal of Language and Culture
Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Titles
Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel
This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far,… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] 2021. vii, 279 pp.
Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
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.
2021 Cultural conceptualizations of magical practices related to menstrual blood in a transhistorical and transcontinental perspective Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel (eds.), pp. 41–76 | Chapter
Most, if not all, of the studies in Cultural Linguistics have (a) taken a synchronic perspective or (b) focused on specific, intracultural conceptualizations. In my chapter, I will look at a cluster of conceptualizations that have been found to exist in different historical periods, in different… read more
2021 Introduction Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2020 Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics: Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics, Schröder, Ulrike, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Introduction
Is it possible to bridge the gap between the predominantly functionalist approaches to culture in pragmatic research, on the one hand, and cognitively based Cultural Linguistics, whose fundamental aim is to look at the conceptual underneath observable and situationally bound discourse, on the… read more
2017 Cultural conceptualizations of gender and homosexuality in BrE, IndE, and NigE Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Callies, Marcus and Alexander Onysko (eds.), pp. 110–130 | Article
With the spread of English in many parts of the world, numerous local varieties have emerged, shaped by the sociocultural contexts in which they are embedded. Hence, although English is a unifying element, these varieties express different conceptualizations that are deeply rooted in culture.… read more
2017 A corpus-based analysis of cultural conceptualizations from the domains of family and money in Hong Kong English Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters (eds.), pp. 197–214 | Article
Hong Kong culture blends paradoxes: In it, life and death, the real and the other world coexist in the traditions of its inhabitants, which eventually surface in the variety of English spoken in this Special Administrative Region of China. Our corpus-linguistic analysis, on the basis of ICE-HK… read more
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
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
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 | Chapter
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
2006 4. Religion and traditional beliefs in West African English: A linguistic analysis Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Omoniyi, Tope and Joshua A. Fishman † (eds.), pp. 42–59 | Chapter
2004
Studies in African Varieties of English
English World-Wide 25:1, pp. 166–167 | Miscellaneous
2003 An account of distinctive phonetic and lexical features of Gambian English English World-Wide 24:1, pp. 43–61 | Article
The article discusses the specific features of the English used in The Gambia by looking at the phonetic and lexical markers that distinguish Gambian English from the other national varieties of West African English. The study shows that Gambian English has a number of established and exclusive… read more