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

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-int...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 45
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Physical Description:1 online resource (321 p.) :; num. figs. and tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
  • Part one: Lexical and lexical-semantic variation
  • Heterodox concept features and onomasiological heterogeneity in dialects
  • Measuring and parameterizing lexical convergence and divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese
  • Awesome insights into semantic variation
  • Applying word space models to sociolinguistics. Religion names before and after 9/11
  • Part two: Constructional variation
  • The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective
  • (Not) acquiring grammatical gender in two varieties of Dutch
  • Lectal variation in constructional semantics: “Benefactive” ditransitives in Dutch
  • Part three: Variation of lectal awareness and attitudes
  • Lectal acquisition and linguistic stereotype formation
  • Investigations into the folk’s mental models of linguistic varieties
  • A cognitive approach to quantitative sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from th-fronting in Central Scotland
  • Backmatter