Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Author | : Dirk Geeraerts |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2010-03-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783110226461 |
ISBN-13 | : 3110226464 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Download or read book Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics written by Dirk Geeraerts and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-03-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-internal variation. All ten contributions rely on a firm empirical basis in the form of advanced corpus-based techniques, experimental methods and survey-based research, or a combination of these. The search for methods that may adequately unravel the complex and multivariate dimensions intervening in the interplay between conceptual meaning and variationist factors is thus another characteristic of the volume. In terms of its descriptive scope, the volume covers three main areas: lexical and lexical-semantic variation, constructional variation, and research on lectal attitudes and acquisition. It thus illustrates how Cognitive Sociolinguistics studies both the variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation.