Arne Peters
List of John Benjamins publications in which Arne Peters is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1879-8047
Title
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 Lexical evidence for ancestral communication in Black South African English Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel (eds.), pp. 23–40 | Chapter
The present chapter derives from a comprehensive project on culture-specific conceptualizations in Black South African English. It carries out a lexico-semantic analysis of conceptualizations of ancestral communication in Black South African English and is based on a 66,634-word corpus of 424… read more
2021 Pseudonyms as carriers of contextualised threat in 19th-century Irish English threatening notices English World-Wide 42:1, pp. 29–53 | Article
This paper explores functions of pseudonyms in written threatening communication from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective. It addresses the semantic domains present in pseudonyms in a corpus of 19th-century Irish English threatening notices and their cognitive functions in the construction… read more
2017 Fairies, banshees , and the church : Cultural conceptualisations in Irish English Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters (eds.), pp. 127–148 | Article
The present paper approaches Irish English from a cultural linguistic perspective. It illustrates how the study of cultural schemas, cultural categories, cultural conceptualisations, and conceptual metaphors/metonymies can contribute to the understanding of Irish English as a variety of English… 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
2012 Linguistic change in Galway City English: A study of phonological features in the district of Bóthar Mór New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 29–46 | Article
This article presents a pilot study of linguistic change in progress in Irish English. It is based on a small corpus of interview data. Using a segmental phonological approach, the paper focuses on the phonological characteristics of English spoken in the Bóthar Mór district of Galway City in the… read more