Cognitive sociolinguistics : social and cultural variation in cognition and language use

Cognitive sociolinguistics : social and cultural variation in cognition and language use / edited by Martin Pütz, University of Koblenz-Landau ; Justyna A. Robinson, University of Sussex ; Monika Reif, University of Koblenz-Landau.

With the notable exception of the application of the metonymy model to explain stereotyping (Kristiansen, 2001), sociolinguistic language attitudes research has typically focused exclusively on explicit attitudes toward foreign accents without providing a cognitive model to explain how such attitude...

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Other Authors: Pütz, Martin, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; Volume 59.
Subjects:
Cognitive grammar > Social aspects.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Cognitive Sociolinguistics; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; The emergence of Cognitive Sociolinguistics; 1. Introduction to the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics; 2. Usage-based linguistics and language-internal variation; 3. Usage-based vs. rule-based conceptions of language; 4. Exploring variation of meaning; 5. Categorization and prototypes; 6. Language, culture and ideology; 7. Introduction to the current volume; 8. Conclusion; References; What is to be learned; 1. Introduction; 2. The acquisition of the general; 3. Acquisition of variable patterns.
  • 4. Acquisition of what is new5. Uniformity and divergence on a larger scale; 5.1 The acquisition of social values; 6. The effect of settlement and communication patterns; 7. The acquisition of cultural values; 8. From local nonconformity to community norms; 9. Conclusion; References; Variation, structure and norms; 1. Introduction; 2. Norms as foundations; 3. Langue as a normative feature of the community; 4. Evolutionary linguistics and the causality of niche construction; 5. The individual level, emergence and the causal role of community-level facts; 6. The 'anti-normative' stance.
  • 7. Summary and final remarksReferences; Flexibility and change in distributed cognitive systems; 1. Introduction; 2. Collective
  • differentially distributed
  • cognitive structures; 3. Semantics and pragmatics; 4. "Culture" as shared differentially distributed pragmatic knowledge; 5. The requirements of flexibility; 6. The role culture plays in regard to society and social living; 7. The role social groups play in culture; 8. Our social universe is made up of a multiplicity of overlapping social groups.
  • 9. Prototype-extension: the basis of the application of shared concepts to the experienced and imagined world10. Some cultural knowledge systems
  • shared differentially distributed cognitive structures; 11. Flexibility and variability; 12. Some practical implications for analysis; Conclusion; References; Appendix; Pragmatic variation and cultural models; 1. Introduction; 2. A framework for studying pragmatic variation; 3. Method; 3.1 Research instrument; 3.2 Population; 3.3 Analysis; 4. Results; 4.1 Sociopragmatic similarities; 4.2 Pragmalinguistic similarities.
  • 4.3 Pragmalinguistic differences4.4 Sociopragmatic differences; 5. Discussion; 5.1 Status of findings; 5.2 Towards an explanation; 5.3 Cultural scripts; 5.4 Cultural models; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English; 1. Introduction; 2. The usage-based approach to dictionary making; 3. Conceptual information in learners' dictionaries of English and 'the cultural dictionary'; 4. L2- and other variety dictionaries of English; 5. Cognitive-sociolinguistic principles for L2-dictionaries (of English) and their applications.

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