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Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-02 Metaphor at the nexus of language and culture in World Englishes - Details

Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-02 Metaphor at the nexus of language and culture in World Englishes - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-02 Metaphor at the nexus of language and culture in World Englishes
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Veranstaltungsnummer 10-M80-3-SpecMo-02
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 15
maximale Teilnehmendenanzahl 20
Heimat-Einrichtung Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Nächster Termin Dienstag, 09.12.2025 14:15 - 15:45, Ort: GW2 A3390 (CIP-Labor FB 10)
Art/Form Seminar
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

Modulzuordnungen

  • Universität Bremen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

In the last decades, the research paradigm of World Englishes has experienced a proliferation of detailed studies of different aspects of Englishes across the world. These descriptions have largely focused on phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic, and, more recently, also pragmatic characteristics of World Englishes. However, the field of figurative language use, as manifest e.g. in conceptual metaphors and idioms, has largely been neglected so far.

The English language and its worldwide diversification provides rich potential for looking into aspects of variation in conceptual and linguistic metaphor, and for exploring how the culturally specific settings of the many Englishes may determine some of that variation. Thus, research on metaphor in World Englishes addresses the nexus of language and culture and is therefore a truly interdisciplinary research field located at the interface of Cognitive Linguistics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Cultural Linguistics, and World Englishes.

In this seminar, we will first deal with Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a major strand within Cognitive Linguistics and then address recent developments in Cognitive Sociolinguistics and Cultural Linguistics before reviewing the merging research on metaphor in World Englishes. The following main questions will be discussed:
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To what extent are electronic corpora viable sources of data to examine metaphor and figurativ elanguage in World Englishes, and what are state-of-the-art approaches to the identification and retrieval of metaphorical expressions and idioms from corpus data?
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What source and target domains can be identified as fruitful for the study of metaphor and idioms in World Englishes (e.g. the conceptualization of emotions, FOOD / EATING as source domains)?
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Can certain types of figurative language serve as markers of nativization / indigenization in World Englishes?
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How do metaphors and idioms relate to underlying differences in cultural conceptualizations in World Englishes?

Required preparatory reading for this class:

Kövecses, Z. (2010), Metaphor. A Practical Introduction. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 1 and 14.

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