Anna Finzel

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Finzel is involved.

Titles

Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English

Anna Finzel

The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 17] 2025. xxi, 229 pp.

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.

Articles

Finzel, Anna 2021 Innate or acquired? homosexuality and cultural models of gender in Indian and Nigerian English Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Chapter

In this chapter, some of the findings from sociolinguistic interviews with 25 speakers of Indian English and 26 speakers of Nigerian English are presented. Emanating from a larger research project concerned with conceptualizations of gender, the current analysis focuses on conceptualizations of… read more

Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel 2021 Introduction Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter

Finzel, Anna and Hans-Georg Wolf 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