Cognitive Sociolinguistics : Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems
Gitte. Kristiansen
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berlin : : De Gruyter, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (556 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontmatter; Table of contents; Introduction. Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Rationale, methods and scope; Prototypes, stereotypes, and semantic norms; Style-shifting and shifting styles: A socio-cognitive approach to lectal variation; Methodological issues in corpus-based Cognitive Linguistics; Channel and constructional meaning: A collostructional case study; National variation in the use of er "there". Regional and diachronic constraints on cognitive explanations; Variation in the choice of adjectives in the two main national varieties of Dutch; Rationalist or romantic model in globalisation?. - A nation is a territory with one culture and one language: The role of metaphorical folk models in language policy debatesCultural models of Home in Aboriginal children's English; A Cognitive Linguistic approach to the cultures of World Englishes: The emergence of a new model; Corporate brands as socio-cognitive representations; Metaphorically speaking: Gender and classroom discourse; The business model of the university: Sources and consequences of its construal; Competition, cooperation, and interconnection: 'Metaphor families' and social systems. - How cognitive linguists can help to solve political problemsBackmatter. - A union of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics was bound to happen. Both proclaim a usage-based approach to language and aim to analyse actual language use in objective ways. Whereas Sociolinguistics is by nature on the outlook forlanguage in its variety, CL can no longer afford to ignoresocial variation in language as it manifests itself in the usagedata. Nor can it fail to adopt an empirical methodology thatreflects variation as it actually occurs, beyond the limitedknowledge of the individual observer. Conversely, while CL canonly benefit from a heightened sensitivity to social aspec
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| ISBN | 9783110196252
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