Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110199154
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9781283396639
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9783110196252
Series Statement:
Cognitive linguistics research 39
Content:
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Frontmatter; Table of contents; Introduction. Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Rationale, methods and scope; Prototypes, stereotypes, and semantic norms; Style-shifting and shifting styles: A socio-cognitive approach to lectal variation; 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; Rationalist or romantic model in globalisation?
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A nation is a territory with one culture and one language: The role of metaphorical folk models in language policy debatesCultural models of Home in Aboriginal children's English; A Cognitive Linguistic approach to the cultures of World Englishes: The emergence of a new model; 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
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How cognitive linguists can help to solve political problemsBackmatter;
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110196252
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cognitive sociolinguistics Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2008 ISBN 9783110196252
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Soziolinguistik
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Kognitive Linguistik
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199154
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Dirven, René 1932-2016
Author information:
Kristiansen, Gitte 1966-
