Advances in cognitive sociolinguistics:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. Mouton de Gruyter 2010
Series:Cognitive linguistics research 45
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 advanced corpus-based techniques and/or experimental methods and survey-based research. They illustrate how Cognitive Sociolinguistics studies both the variation of meaning, and the meanin
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 321 pages)
ISBN:9783110226461
3110226464

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