Cognitive Sociolinguistics : : Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems / / ed. by Gitte Kristiansen, René Dirven.

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• MitwirkendeR: Berthele, Raphael,; Dirven, René,; Fiksdal, Susan,; Geeraerts, Dirk,; Gries, Stefan Th.,; Grondelaers, Stefan,; Heylen, Kris,; Janicki, Karol,; Koller, Veronika,; Kristiansen, Gitte,; Morgan, Pamela S.,; Polzenhagen, Frank,; Sharifian, Farzad,; Speelman, Dirk,; Stefanowitsch, Anatol,; Tummers, José,; Urban, Nancy,; Wolf, Hans-Georg,
• HerausgeberIn: Dirven, René,; Kristiansen, Gitte,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 39
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (545 p.)

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, CL 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 CL 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. The volume brings together fifteen chapters written by prominent scholars testifying of rich empirical and theoretizing research into the social aspects of language variation. Taking a broad view on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the volume covers three main areas: corpus-based research on language variation, cognitive cultural models, and the ideologies of sociopolitical and socio-economic systems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Cognitive Sociolinguistics: -- Rationale, methods and scope -- Part one: Theoretical aspects: Semantic and lectal -- variation -- Prototypes, stereotypes, and semantic norms -- Style-shifting and shifting styles: A -- socio-cognitive approach to lectal variation -- Part two: Usage-based variation research -- 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 -- Part three: Cultural models of language and -- language policy -- 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 -- debates -- Cultural models of Home in Aboriginal children’s -- English -- A Cognitive Linguistic approach to the cultures of -- World Englishes: The emergence of a new model -- Part four: Socio-political systems -- 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 -- problems -- Backmatter