| Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics Contributor(s): Geeraerts, Dirk (Editor), Kristiansen, Gitte (Editor), Peirsman, Yves (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110226456 ISBN-13: 9783110226454 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $179.54 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| LCCN: 2010002952 |
| Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.51 lbs) 329 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |