The present volume, dedicated to Prof. René Dirven in honour of his 65th birthday, is a collection of 30 papers contributed by linguistic scholars from countries throughout the world. They present their latest research findings and discussions in four central disciplines of modern linguistics: cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics focusing primarily on Africa, foreign language teaching and business communication.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Acknowledgements | S. XI | ||
| Smieja, Birgit / Tasch, Meike: | |||
| Introduction | S. XIII | ||
| Section 1: Cognitive Linguistics | |||
| Athanasiadou, Angeliki: | |||
| Concession and adversativeness: areas of convergence and divergence | S. 3 | ||
| Botha, Willem J.: | |||
| Mental contact: the category die 'the' in Afrikaans | S. 17 | ||
| Cuyckens, Hubert / Sandra, Dominiek / Rice, Sally: | |||
| Towards an empirical lexical semantics | S. 35 | ||
| Inchaurralde, Carlos: | |||
| Big time, small time: aspect in natural language and cognition | S. 55 | ||
| Jäkel, Olaf: | |||
| European predecessors of a cognitive theory of metaphor | S. 69 | ||
| Niemeier, Susanne: | |||
| To have one's heart in the right place – metonymic and metaphorical evidence for the folk model of the heart as the site of emotions in English | S. 87 | ||
| Panther, Klaus-Uwe: | |||
| Dative alternation from a cognitive perspective | S. 107 | ||
| Pütz, Martin: | |||
| The notion of function in a cognitive approach to English grammar | S. 127 | ||
| Radden, Günter: | |||
| Time is space | S. 147 | ||
| Tabakowska, Elzbieta: | |||
| Image in translation: a case study of three Polish Hamlets | S. 167 | ||
| Taylor, John R.: | |||
| The morphology of locativised nouns in Zulu | S. 187 | ||
| Verspoor, Marjolijn: | |||
| True bue. A cognitive approach to vocabulary acquisition | S. 203 | ||
| Section 2: Language Contact and Conflict in Africa | |||
| Adegbija, Efurosibina: | |||
| The language factor in the achievement of better results in literacy programmes in Nigeria: some general practical considerations | S. 221 | ||
| Batibo, Herman M.: | |||
| The fate of the minority languages of Botswana | S. 243 | ||
| Blommaert, Jan: | |||
| The impact of state ideology on language: Ujamaa and Swahili literature in Tanzania | S. 253 | ||
| Beban Chumbow, Sammy: | |||
| Thematic glossaries and language development | S. 271 | ||
| Simo Bobda, Augustin: | |||
| Explicating the features of English in multilingual Cameroon: beyond a contrastive perspective | S. 291 | ||
| Smieja, Birgit: | |||
| The fight of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria: Does language conflict exist in Tanzania? | S. 309 | ||
| Tasch, Meike: | |||
| Language attitude patterns among South African students: triumph of hope over experience? | S. 325 | ||
| van der Walt, Christa: | |||
| Justifying their existence: South African varieties of English | S. 341 | ||
| Vossen, Rainer: | |||
| What click sounds got to do in Bantu Reconstructing the history of language contacts in southern Africa |
S. 353 | ||
| Section 3: Foreign Language Teaching | |||
| Grundy, Peter: | |||
| Reflexive language and language teacher preparation | S. 369 | ||
| Heidemann, Angela / Raspe, Ingrid: | |||
| The visualisation in two multimedia CALL programs for early learners | S. 387 | ||
| Hünig, Wolfgang: | |||
| English intonation: Learning by doing what? | S. 413 | ||
| Kupetz, Rita: | |||
| Teachers as cultural interpreters A report on a workshop held at Saratov State University (Russia) in September 1996 |
S. 433 | ||
| Section 4: Business Communication | |||
| Baten, Lut / Vekemans, Linda: | |||
| A critical approach to software implementation in courses of Business English | S. 445 | ||
| Campbell, Charles P.: | |||
| Using linguistic concepts as tools for improving technical editing | S. 461 | ||
| Pörings, Ralf: | |||
| Whose experience seen from what perspective – relating to the other in an intercultural business negotiation | S. 471 | ||
| Ulijn, Jan / Campbell, Charles P.: | |||
| International paragraphing: what can cultures learn from each other in the communicative and managerial field? | S. 491 | ||
| Index | S. 501 | ||