Wolf and Polzenhagen, who seem to be German but went to Hong Kong to write this book, aspire to help establish cognitive sociolinguistics as a subspecialty of cognitive linguistics. In particular, the
"Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and Russi
