ISBN:
9783110226461
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3110226464
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 321 pages)
Series Statement:
Cognitive linguistics research 45
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
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Cognitive grammar
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Sociolinguistics
;
Linguistik
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Cognitive grammar
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Kognitive Linguistik
;
Soziolinguistik
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Konferenzschrift 2007
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Konferenzschrift 2007
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Kognitive Linguistik
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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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
