This book interrogates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical and an analytical framework of cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations and language that draws on and expands the analytical tools and theoretical advancements in a number of disciplines, including cognitive psychology/science, anthropology, distributed cognition, and complexity science. The field of World English has long focused on sociolinguistic and applied linguistic studies of varieties of English. Cultural Linguistics is now opening a new venue for research on world Englishes by exploring cultural conceptualisations underlying different varieties of English. The book explores ways in which the analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics may be employed to study varieties of English worldwide.weiterlesen