Advances in cognitive sociolinguistics / edited by Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geeraerts, Dirk, 1955-

Kristiansen, Gitte, 1966-

Peirsman, Yves.

Series:

Cognitive linguistics research ; 45.

Cognitive linguistics research ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cognitive Sociolinguistics is a novel and burgeoning field of research which seeks to foster investigation into the socio-cognitive dimensions of language at a usage-based level. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics brings together ten studies into the social and conceptual aspects of language-internal variation. All ten contributions rely on a firm empirical basis in the form of advanced corpus-based techniques, experimental methods and survey-based research, or a combination of these. The search for methods that may adequately unravel the complex and multivariate dimensions intervening in the interplay between conceptual meaning and variationist factors is thus another characteristic of the volume. In terms of its descriptive scope, the volume covers three main areas: lexical and lexical-semantic variation, constructional variation, and research on lectal attitudes and acquisition. It thus illustrates how Cognitive Sociolinguistics studies both the variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics / Geeraerts, Dirk / Kristiansen, Gitte / Peirsman, Yves

Part one: Lexical and lexical-semantic variation

Heterodox concept features and onomasiological heterogeneity in dialects / Geeraerts, Dirk / Speelman, Dirk

Measuring and parameterizing lexical convergence and divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese / da Silva, Augusto Soares

Awesome insights into semantic variation / Robinson, Justyna A.

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics. Religion names before and after 9/11 / Peirsman, Yves / Heylen, Kris / Geeraerts, Dirk

Part two: Constructional variation

The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective / Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt

(Not) acquiring grammatical gender in two varieties of Dutch / De Vogelaer, Gunther

Lectal variation in constructional semantics: "Benefactive" ditransitives in Dutch / Colleman, Timothy

Part three: Variation of lectal awareness and attitudes

Lectal acquisition and linguistic stereotype formation / Kristiansen, Gitte

Investigations into the folk's mental models of linguistic varieties / Berthele, Raphael

A cognitive approach to quantitative sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from th-fronting in Central Scotland / Clark, Lynn / Trousdale, Graeme

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612716454

9781282716452

128271645X

9783110226461

3110226464

OCLC:

611048350