Advances in cognitive sociolinguistics


edited by Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman.
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Berlin ; New York : : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2010.
Omfang
1 online resource (332 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Front matter; Table of contents; Introduction. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics; Part one: Lexical and lexical-semantic variation; Heterodox concept features and onomasiological heterogeneity in dialects; Measuring and parameterizing lexical convergence and divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese; Awesome insights into semantic variation; Applying word space models to sociolinguistics. Religion names before and after 9/11; Part two: Constructional variation; The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective. - (Not) acquiring grammatical gender in two varieties of Dutch Lectal variation in constructional semantics: "Benefactive" ditransitives in Dutch; Part three: Variation of lectal awareness and attitudes; Lectal acquisition and linguistic stereotype formation; Investigations into the folk's mental models of linguistic varieties; A cognitive approach to quantitative sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from th-fronting in Central Scotland; Back matter. - 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
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9783110226454

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