Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

(1994). A Folk Model of the 'Internal Self' in Light of the Contemporary View of Metaphor - the Self as Subject and Object. European University Studies, Series XIV Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, vol. 284. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang.

(2001). English in Cameroon. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 85. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Reviewed in LinguistList, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Linguistics, English World-Wide, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Pidgins and Creole Studies, The Year's Work in English Studies).

(2009). World Englishes: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach. Applications of Cognitive Linguistics 8. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2011). A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragant Harbor. The University of Hong Kong Press. [With Cummings, Patrick]

(2003). Studies in African Varieties of English. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang. (Reviewed in English World-Wide, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, The Year's Work in English Studies, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung). [mit Lucko, Peter & Peter, Lothar]

(2006-2007). Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography (CogBib). CD-Rom and electronic publication. Main editor of editorial team [René Dirven, Ron Chen, Ning Yu and Birgit Smieja]. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

(2008). Special issue: The History of Linguistics. Language Sciences, 30(5). [With Hutton, Christopher]

(2008). Focus on English: Language Structure and Language Variation. Studies in Honour of Peter Lucko. Leipziger Universitätsverlag. [With Polzenhagen, Frank & Peter, Lothar]

(1996). "A folk model of the 'internal self' in light of the contemporary view of metaphor. The self as subject and object." In Weinstock, Horst (ed.). English and American Studies in German 1995. Summaries of Theses and Monographs. A Supplement to Anglia, 19-22. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.

(1997). "Transcendence of ethnic boundaries: The case of the Anglophones in Cameroon." Journal of Sociolinguistics 1(3): 419-426.

(1999). "The impact of British colonial policy on the forms and functions of English in Cameroon." In Carls, Uwe & Lucko, Peter (eds.). Form, Function and Variation in English: Studies in Honour of Klaus Hansen, 219-233. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang.

(1999). "From mother tongue to second language: the cultural model of 'community' in African English." La Langue Maternelle. Cahiers Charles V, 27: 75-91.

(1999). "Identifying regional and national origin of English-speaking Africans seeking asylum in Germany." Forensic Linguistics 6(2): 302-321. [With Simo Bobda, Augustin & Peter, Lothar]

(2000). "E-mail discourse structure and cross-cultural understanding between Taiwan and Germany." Studies in English Language and Literature. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 7: 19-27. [With Liao, Chao-chih]

(2000). "The use of an indigenous cultural model in English language instruction in Cameroon." LAUD Linguistic Agency. Series A: General & Theoretical Papers, No. 514. [With Simo Bobda, Augustin]

(2001). "The African cultural model of community in English language instruction in Cameroon: The need for more systematicity." In Pütz, Martin; Niemeier, Susanne & Dirven, René (eds.). Applied Cognitive Linguistics II: Language Pedagogy, 225-229. Cognitive Linguistics Research 19.2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [With Simo Bobda, Augustin]

(2001). "Aku in The Gambia: Terminological problems, functional distribution and popular attitude." In Igboanusi, Herbert (ed.). Language Attitudes and Language Conflicts in West Africa, 96-104. Ibadan, Nigeria. [With Peter, Lothar]

(2002). "Conceptual metaphor as ideological stylistic means: An exemplary analysis." LAUD Linguistic Agency. Series A: General & Theoretical Papers, No. 549. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2003). "The contextualization of common core terms in West African English: Evidence from computer corpora." In Lucko, Peter; Peter, Lothar; & Wolf, Hans-Georg (eds.). Studies in African Varieties of English, 3-20. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang.

(2003). "Aku in The Gambia: Terminological problems, functional distribution and popular attitude." (technically revised and expanded version). In Lucko, Peter; Peter, Lothar; & Wolf, Hans-Georg (eds.). Studies in African Varieties of English, 119-127. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang. [With Peter, Lothar]

(2003). "A preliminary comparison of lexical items in Nigerian English and Cameroon English." In Lucko, Peter; Peter, Lothar; & Wolf, Hans-Georg (eds.). Studies in African Varieties of English, 69-81. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang. [With Igboanusi, Herbert]

(2003). "Pidgin English in Cameroon in the new millennium." In Lucko, Peter; Peter, Lothar; & Wolf, Hans-Georg (eds.). Studies in African Varieties of English, 101-117. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang. [With Simo Bobda, Augustin]

(2003). "Conceptual metaphor as ideological stylistic means: An exemplary analysis." In Dirven, René; Frank, Roslyn S.; & Pütz, Martin (eds). Cognitive Models in Language and Thought: Ideologies, Metaphors, and Meanings, 245-274. Cognitive Linguistics Research 21. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2003). "An account of distinctive phonetic and lexical features of Gambian English." English World-Wide 24(1): 43-61. [With Peter, Lothar & Simo Bobda, Augustin]

(2004). "Empowerment through English - a realistic view of the educational promotion of English in post-colonial contexts: The case of Nigeria." LAUD Linguistic Agency. Series A: General & Theoretical Papers, No. 597. [With Igboanusi, Herbert]

(2004). "Cultural approaches to second language varieties of English: A call for new methodologies and a review of some findings on (West) African English." In Schröder, Anne (ed.). Crossing Borders: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Africa, 133-149. Berlin: LIT Verlag.

(2006). " Intercultural communication in English - a cognitive linguistic focus on neglected issues." LAUD Linguistic Agency. Series A: General & Theoretical Papers, No. 683: 1-26. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2006). "Empowerment through English - a realistic view of the educational promotion of English in post-colonial contexts: The case of Nigeria." In Pütz, Martin; Fishman, Joshua A.; & Neff - van Aertselaer, JoAnne (eds.). Along the Routes to Power: Explorations of the Empowerment through Language, 331-356. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 92. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [With Igboanusi, Herbert]

(2006) "Religion and traditional beliefs in West African English: A linguistic analysis." In Omoniyi, Tope & Fishman, Joshua A. (eds.). Readings in the Sociology of Language and Religion, 42-59. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 20. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(2006). "Intercultural communication in English - Arguments for a cognitive approach to intercultural pragmatics." Intercultural Pragmatics 3(3): 285-321. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2007). "A comparison of the varieties of West African Pidgin English." World Englishes 26(1): 3-21. [With Peter, Lothar]

(2007). "Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English." In Skandera, Paul (ed.). Phraseology and Culture in English, 399-435. Topics in English Linguistics 54. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2007). " Culture-specific conceptualisations of corruption in African English: Linguistic analyses and pragmatic applications. " In Sharifian, Farzad & Palmer, Gary (eds.). Applied Cultural Linguistics, 125-168. Converging Evidence in Communication and Language Research 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2007). "Cultural studies." In Geeraerts, Dirk & Cuyckens, Hubert (eds.). Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 1203-1221. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [With Dirven, René & Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2007). "Cognitive linguistics, ideology, and discourse analysis." In Geeraerts, Dirk & Cuyckens, Hubert (eds.). Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 1222-1240. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [With Dirven, René & Polzenhagen, Frank]

(2008). "Basic level salience in second language acquisition: A study of English vocabulary learning by Chinese adults." In: 33rd International LAUD Symposium. Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing: Theory and Pedagogy. Essen, LAUD Linguistic Agency, Series A: 963-995. [With Xia, Xiaoyan]

(2008). "Compiling an exclusive dictionary of West African English: A report on work in progress." In Simo Bobda, Augustin (ed.). Explorations into Language Use in Africa, 221-234. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture 70. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang. [With Peter, Lothar]

(2008). "British and French language and educational policies in the Mandate and Trusteeship Territories." In Hutton, Christopher, & Wolf, Hans-Georg (eds.). Special issue: The History of Linguistics. Language Sciences, 30(5): 553-574.

(2008). "A cognitive linguistic approach to the cultures of World Englishes: The emergence of a new model." In Kristiansen, Gitte & Dirven, René (eds.). Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems, 353-385. Cognitive Linguistic Research 39. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

(2008). "Conceptions of globalization in African and Western newspaper corpora." In Wolf, Hans-Georg; Peter, Lothar; and Polzenhagen, Frank (eds.). Focus on English: Language Structure and Language Variation. Studies in Honour of Peter Lucko, 133-149. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. [With Juffermans, Kasper]

(2010). „The role of ethnically mixed marriages in language shift: A case study of Nigeria’s minority languages”. Sociolinguistic Studies 2009, 3(3): 451-464. [With Igboanusi, Herbert].

(2010). „Patterns in metaphor translation: Translating FEAR Metaphors between English and Chinese”. In Xiao, Richard (ed.). Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies, 40-61. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [With Yan, Ding & Noël, Dirk].

(2010). „The ‘new semantics’ of lexicography – Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English”. LAUD Linguistic Agency. Series A: General & Theoretical Papers, No. 766. [With Polzenhagen, Frank].

(2010). „East and West African Englishes: Differences and commonalities.” In Kirkpatrick, Andy (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, 197-211. London: Routledge.

(2010). „Basic-level salience in second language acquisition: A study of English vocabulary learning and use by Chinese adults”. In De Knop, Sabine; Boers, Frank; and De Rycker, Antoon (eds.). Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive Linguistics. Applications of Cognitive Linguistics 17. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [With Xiaoyan, Xia].

(2010). „Investigating culture from a linguistic perspective: An exemplification with Hong Kong English”. In Mair, Christian and Korte, Barbara (eds.). Special issue: Linguistics and Cultural Studies. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA), 58(3): 281-303. [With Polzenhagen, Frank].

"The cognitive sociolinguistic approach to Cameroon English and other World Englishes: A lexicological application." In Eric A. Anchimbe (ed.). Approaches to Cameroon English: Features, Structure, and New Perspectives. Varieties of English Around the World. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

A metaphoric folk model of consciousness." Language and consciousness. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Varna, Bulgaria, September 12-15, 1995.

"Transcendence of ethnic boundaries: Second language as a cause of unity - the case of the Anglophones in Cameroon." The Linguistic Construction of Social and Personal Identity, Research Committee on Sociolinguistics - RC 25. Evora, Portugal, March 25-29, 1996.

"Report on work in progress (English in Cameroon)," at the English department of University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany, January 14, 1997.

"From mother tongue to second language: The cultural model of community in African English." La Langue Maternelle. University of Paris 7, France, March 19-20, 1999.

"The concept of the 'Afro-German'." Panel Discussion. W.E.B. Du Bois Week. American Studies. Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, June 3, 1999.

"English in West Africa." Afrika- und Asienkolloquium 'Transkulturalität.' Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin, in cooperation with the Modern Orient Center, Berlin, Germany, January 12, 2000. [With Lothar Peter]

"The use of an indigenous cultural model in English language instruction in Cameroon." 28th International LAUD Symposium. 'Ten Years After': Cognitive Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, and Linguistic Theory. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany, March 27-30, 2000. [With Augustin Simo Bobda]

"Ein metaphorisches Modell des Bewußtseins - eine Systematisierung." Public presentation as requirement for the Habilitation. Philosophical Faculty II, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, December 6, 2000.

"The contextualization of common core terms in varieties of West African English." GNEL/MAVEN, The Cultural Politics of English as a World Language. University of Freiburg, Germany, June 6-9, 2001.

"Conceptual metaphor as ideological stylistic means: An exemplary analysis." 29th International LAUD Symposium. The Language of Politico-Social Ideologies. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany, March 25-28, 2002. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

"Religion and traditional belief in (West) African English." (Lead paper). Sociology of Language & Religion International Colloquium. University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK, June 20-22, 2002.

"A cognitive linguistic account of socio-cultural concepts: Expressions of witchcraft, magical leadership, and corruption in African varieties of English." 35th SLE Meeting. Rethinking Language and Mind. University of Potsdam, Germany, July 22-25, 2002. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

"Pragmatic consequences of socio-cultural differences in the conceptualization of the family domain in African English and native varieties of English." 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Ground and New Directions. La Rioja, Spain, July 20-25, 2003. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

"Empowerment through English - a realistic view of the educational promotion of English in post-colonial contexts: the example of Nigeria." 30th International LAUD Symposium. Empowerment through Language. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany, April 19-22, 2004. [With Herbert Igboanusi]

"A cultural linguistic approach to World Englishes: The emergence of a new paradigm." 2004 ELLAK (English Language and Literature Association of Korea) Conference. Seoul, Korea, June 15-19, 2004.

“Compiling an exclusive dictionary of West African English: Report on work in progress”. Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong, April 26, 2005.“

"Initial findings on similarities in linguistic realizations of the family domain in African English and Chinese English". 2nd Roundtable Discussion on African Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 25. Mai 2005.

Exploring the cultures of Asian Englishes: Evidence from corpus linguistics”.Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE). The multiple Expressions of World Englishes. Purdue, USA, July 21-23, 2005. [With Bolton, Kingsley]

"British Educational and Linguistic Policy in the Mandate and Trusteeship Territories." First East Asian SGdS (Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft)-Colloquium on the History of Linguistics. The University of Hong Kong, October 28-30, 2005.

"Intercultural communication in English - A cognitive linguistic focus on neglected issues." 31st International LAUD Symposium. Intercultural Pragmatics. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany, March 27-30, 2006. [With Polzenhagen, Frank]

„Reflections on Intercultural Pragmatics”. University of Hong Kong, School of English. January 1, 2007.

"Basic-level salience in second language acquisition: A study of English vocabulary learning by Chinese adults." 32nd International LAUD Symposium. Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing: Theory and Pedagogy. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany, March 10-13, 2008. [With Xia Xiaoyan]

"Lost in metaphor and metonymy translation? A corpus-based study of the translation of metaphors and metonymies of FEAR between English and Chinese." Seventh International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM7), University of Extremadura, Spain, May 29-31, 2008. [With Ding Yan and Noël, Dirk]

"Cultural models of religious belief systems in L2 varieties of English." Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland, September 11-14, 2008.

"Patterns in metaphor translation: a corpus-based case study of the translation of FEAR metaphors between English and Chinese." International Symposium on Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, September 25-27, 2008. [With Ding Yan and Noël, Dirk]

"Degree adverbs in Hong Kong and Singapore English." 14th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes, City University of Hong Kong, December 3-5, 2008. [With Sun Li and Noël, Dirk]

„The role of ethnically mixed marriages in language shift: a case study of Nigeria’s minority languages”. WOCAL 6. African Linguistics for Understanding and Progress. University Cologne, Germany, August, 17-21, 2009. [With Igboanusi, Herbert].

„Poetic Metaphor and Everyday Metaphor: A corpus-based contrastive study of metaphors of SADNESS in poetry and non-literary discourse.” The Stockholm 2009 Metaphor Festival, University Stockholm, Sweden, September, 9-10, 2009. [With Yan, Ding & Noël, Dirk].

„Emotion metaphors in poetic and non-poetic discourse: the case of SADNESS metaphors.” 8th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor. VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit), June, 30 – July, 3, 2010. [With Yan, Ding & Noël, Dirk].