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final examination topics: MA, American English and linguistics

  1. History of American English: Major historical periods in the development of American English
  2. Social-cultural influences on the development of American English
  3. Dialects in American English
  4. Style in American English
  5. Characterizing American English vs. British English: Systematic differences between British and American English
  6. Categories in thought and language
  7. Frames and image schemas
  8. Metaphor
  9. Metonymy
  10. Alternative conceptualization
  11. English grammar from a cognitive perspective
  12. Mental spaces
  13. Conceptual integration
  14. Linguistic relativity
  15. American English, cognition, American culture
  • Dillard, J. L., A History of American English. New York: Longman, 1992.
  • Dillard, J. L. Toward a Social History of American English. Berlin: Mouton, 1985.
  • Dirven, RenĂ©, GĂĽnter Radden, Cognitive English Grammar. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007.
  • Kövecses, Zoltán, ed., New Approaches to American English. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, 1995.
  • Kövecses, Zoltán, American English. An Introduction. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2000.
  • Kövecses, Zoltán, Language, Mind, and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Kövecses, Zoltán, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. 2nd, revised ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Kövecses, Zoltán, RĂ©ka Benczes, KognitĂ­v nyelvĂ©szet. Budapest: AkadĂ©miai KiadĂł, 2010.
  • Lakoff, George, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
  • Lakoff, George, Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
  • Lakoff, George, Mark Johnson, More Than Cool Reason. A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
  • McArthur, T., ed., The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • McCrum, R., W. Cran, R. MacNeil, The Story of English. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
  • Mencken, H. L., The American Language. New York: Knopf, 1919.
  • Taylor, J., Linguistic Categorization. Prototypes in Linguistic Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
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