Cognitive Contact Linguistics : : Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change /

Cognitive Contact Linguistics : : Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change / / ed. by Eline Zenner, Ad Backus, Esme Winter-Froemel.

This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change. Combining the study of the individual mind with the study o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Backus, Ad,
Colleman, Timothy,
De Pascale, Stefano,
Finzel, Anna,
Lieven, Elena,
Lucek, Stephen,
Marzo, Stefania,
Noël, Dirk,
Onysko, Alexander,
Quick, Antje Endesfelder,
Speelman, Dirk,
Van de Mieroop, Dorien,
Verschik, Anna,
Vertommen, Bram,
Winter-Froemel, Esme,
Wolf, Hans-Georg,
Zenner, Eline,
HerausgeberIn:
Backus, Ad,
Winter-Froemel, Esme,
Zenner, Eline,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 62
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Placing usage, meaning and mind at the core of contact-induced variation and change
  • Part I: Conceptual foundations and categorization principles in contact-induced change
  • 1. Reconceptualizing language contact phenomena as cognitive processes
  • 2. English-Estonian code-copying in blogs: Combining a contact linguistic and cognitive approach
  • 3. Reanalysis in language contact: Perceptive ambiguity, salience, and catachrestic reinterpretation
  • 4. When third-wave sociolinguistics and prototype analysis meet: The social meaning of sibilant palatalization in a Flemish Urban Vernacular
  • Part II: Associating concepts: Metaphors and cultural models in contact
  • 5. Notions of Containment and Support in Irish English: Implications of language contact on the cognition of space
  • 6. Conceptual metaphors as contact phenomena? The influence of local concepts on source and target domain
  • 7. Cultural models in contact: Revealing attitudes toward regional varieties of Italian with Vector Space Models
  • Part III: Construction Grammar: Contact in and through more and less schematic form-meaning pairs
  • 8. Language alternation and the state-event contrast: A case-study of Dutch-Turkish and Dutch-Moroccan heritage speakers
  • 9. Partially schematic constructions as engines of development: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition
  • 10. Constructional renovation: The role of French legal language in the survival of the nominative-and-infinitive in Dutch
  • Index

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