Hans-Georg Wolf

List of John Benjamins publications for which Hans-Georg Wolf plays a role.

Book series

Journal

Titles

Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society

Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics

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.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics

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.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
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
Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel 2021 IntroductionCultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
Schröder, Ulrike, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf 2020 Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics: Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural LinguisticsIntercultural 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
Finzel, Anna and Hans-Georg Wolf 2017 Cultural conceptualizations of gender and homosexuality in BrE, IndE, and NigEMetaphor 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
Latić, Denisa and Hans-Georg Wolf 2017 A corpus-based analysis of cultural conceptualizations from the domains of family and money in Hong Kong EnglishCultural 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
Wolf, Hans-Georg, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters 2017 Cultural linguistic contributions to World Englishes: Introduction to the Special IssueCultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters (eds.), pp. 121–126 | Editorial
Wolf, Hans-Georg and Frank Polzenhagen 2014 Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of EnglishCognitive 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
Wolf, Hans-Georg and Frank Polzenhagen 2012 Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of EnglishCognitive 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
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
Wolf, Hans-Georg 2006 4. Religion and traditional beliefs in West African English: A linguistic analysisExplorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Omoniyi, Tope and Joshua A. Fishman † (eds.), pp. 42–59 | Chapter
Lucko, Peter, Lothar Peter and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.) 2004 Studies in African Varieties of EnglishEnglish World-Wide 25:1, pp. 166–167 | Miscellaneous
Peter, Lothar, Hans-Georg Wolf and Augustin Simo Bobda 2003 An account of distinctive phonetic and lexical features of Gambian EnglishEnglish 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