Ebook: Advances in cognitive sociolinguistics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman
- Series: Cognitive linguistics research 45
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
- City: New York, N.Y
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics brings together ten studies into the social and conceptual aspects of language-internal variation. The volume covers three main areas where Cognitive Linguistics and sociolinguistics meet: lexical and lexical-semantic variation, constructional variation, and research on lectal attitudes and acquisition. All ten contributions rely on a firm empirical basis in the form of Read more...
Content: List of contributors --
Introduction: Advances in cognitive sociolinguistics / Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen and Yves Peirsman --
Part I. Lexical and lexical-semantic variation: Heterodox concept features and onomasiological heterogeneity in dialects / Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman --
Measuring and parameterizing lexical convergence and divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese / Augusto Soares da Silva --
Awesome insights into semantic variation / Justyna A. Robinson --
Applying Word Space Models to Sociolinguistics: Religion Names Before and After 9/11 / Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts --
Part 2. Constructional variation: The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi --
(Not) acquiring grammatical gender in two varieties of Dutch / Gunther De Vogelaer --
Lectal variation in constructional semantics: 'Benefactive' ditransitives in Dutch / Timothy Colleman --
Part 3. Variation of lectal awareness and attitudes: Lectal acquisition and linguistic stereotype formation / Gitte Kristiansen --
Investigations into the folk's mental models of linguistic varieties / Raphael Berthele --
A cognitive approach to quantitative sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from TH-fronting in Central Scotland / Lynn Clark and Graeme Trousdale.
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Brings together studies into the social and conceptual aspects of language-internal variation. This title covers three main areas where Cognitive Linguistics and sociolinguistics meet: lexical and Read more...
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