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9783110196252

Cognitive Sociolinguistics

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    9783110196252

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    3110196255

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-30
  • Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

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Summary

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 for language in its variety, Cognitive Linguistics can no longer afford to ignore social variation in language as it manifests itself in the usage data. Nor can it fail to adopt an empirical methodology that reflects variation as it actually occurs, beyond the limited knowledge of the individual observer. Conversely, while Cognitive Linguistics can only benefit from a heightened sensitivity to social aspects, the rich, bottom-up theoretical framework it has developed is likely to contribute to a much better understanding of the meaning of variationist phenomena.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. v
Introduction: Cognitive Linguistics: Rationale, methods and scopep. 1
Theoretical aspects: Semantic and lectal variation
Prototypes, stereotypes, and semantic normsp. 21
Style-shifting and shifting styles: A socio-cognitive approach to lectal variationp. 45
Usage-based variation research
Methodological issues in corpus-based Cognitive Linguisticsp. 91
Channel and constructional meaning: A collostructional case studyp. 129
National variation in the use of er "there". Regional and diachronic constraints on cognitive explanationsp. 153
Variation in the choice of adjectives in the two main national varieties of Dutchp. 205
Cultural models of language and language policy
Rationalist and romantic models in globalisationp. 237
A nation is a territory with one culture and one language: The role of metaphorical folk models in language policy debatesp. 301
Cultural models of Home in Aboriginal children's Englishp. 333
A Cognitive Linguistic approach to the cultures of World Englishes: The emergence of a new modelp. 353
Socio-political systems
Corporate brands as socio-cognitive representationsp. 389
Metaphorically speaking: Gender and classroom discoursep. 419
The business model of the university: Sources and consequences of its construalp. 449
Competition, cooperation, and interconnection: 'Metaphor families' and social systemsp. 483
How cognitive linguists can help to solve political problemsp. 517
Subject indexp. 543
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