= final examination topics: MA, American English and linguistics

# History of American English: Major historical periods in the development of American English
# Social-cultural influences on the development of American English
# Dialects in American English
# Style in American English
# Characterizing American English vs. British English: Systematic differences between British and American English
# Categories in thought and language
# Frames and image schemas
# Metaphor
# Metonymy
# Alternative conceptualization
# English grammar from a cognitive perspective
# Mental spaces
# Conceptual integration
# Linguistic relativity
# American English, cognition, American culture
 
== recommended readings

* 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, René, Günter 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, Réka Benczes, Kognitív nyelvészet. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 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.