Metaphor in language and culture across world Englishes / edited by Marcus Callies and Marta Degani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: metaphor in language and culture across world Englishes -- Part One. Theoretical and methodological considerations -- Important discoveries in the study of metaphor in world Englishes -- Comparing large electronic corpora and elicitation techniques in research on conceptual metaphor and idioms in world Englishes: validating the 'lexicon of corruption' in West African Englishes -- Part Two. Aspects of variation and culture-specificity in the use of metaphor -- Animal-based metaphors of womanhood in English literary works set in the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian regions of India -- Conceptualizations of EAGLE in varieties of English: the case of Nigerian English -- BUILDING metaphors in Hong Kong policy addresses -- Embodiment across Englishes: the comprehension of metaphors in popular song lyrics in Canadian, Austrian, and American English -- Part Three. Metaphor and cultural conceptualisations -- Genres and text types from a cross-varietal and cognitive-cultural perspective: a case study on the contextualisation of classified adverts -- Segregation and cooperation: cultural models of GENDER in Indian and Nigerian English -- Cultural metaphors of personification in Aotearoa English -- Transfer of metaphorical conceptualizations from the L1 into English: notes on emerging project.

"This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geographic, socio-historical and cultural settings around the world. In line with the interdisciplinary breadth of this endeavour, the contributions are grounded in Cognitive (Socio)Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Cultural Linguistics. Drawing on different research methodologies, including corpus linguistics, elicitation techniques, and interviews, chapters analyse a variety of naturalistic data and text types, such as online language, narratives, political speeches and literary works. Examining both the cultural conceptualisations underlying the use of figurative language and the linguistic-cultural specificity of metaphor and its variation, the studies are presented in contexts of both language contact and second language usage. Adding to the debate on the interplay of universal and culture-specific grounding of conceptual metaphor, Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes advances research in a previously neglected sphere of study in the field of World Englishes"-- Provided by publisher.