Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Approaches to world Englishes: Paradigms, positions, and perspectives -- 1.1. Cognitive Linguistics and the study of world Englishes -- 1.2. The world Englishes paradigm -- 1.3. The Cognitive Linguistic paradigm and the study of language variation -- 1.4. Scope, methodology, and empirical basis of our study -- 2. The cultural model of community in African English: A comparative account -- 2.1. Analytical tools: Conceptual metaphor, cultural models, conceptual networks -- 2.2. Aspects of the African community model -- 2.3. Interim summary -- 2.4. The African community model and politics -- 2.5. Summary and implications of the analysis -- 3. Reflections on the study of intercultural communication -- 3.1. Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study ofintercultural communication -- 3.2. Foci of a hermeneutic approach to intercultural communication and a critique of functionalist positions -- 3.3. Intercultural understanding and the problem of relativism -- 3.4. Concluding remarks -- Backmatter