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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• 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
• Godina izdanja: 2008
• Jezik: English
• Serija: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 39
• Opis: 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 so...

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