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The Dynamics of the Linguistic System - Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment (Hardcover)
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The Dynamics of the Linguistic System - Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment (Hardcover)
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This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized
as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The
core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable and uniform,
but continually refreshed by the interaction between three
components: usage, the communicative activities of speakers;
conventionalization, the social processes triggered by these
activities and feeding back into them; and entrenchment, the
individual cognitive processes that are also linked to these
activities in a feedback loop. Hans-Joerg Schmid explains how this
multiple feedback system works by extending his
Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model, showing how the
linguistic system is created, sustained, and continually adapted by
the ongoing interaction between usage, conventionalization, and
entrenchment. Fulfilling the promise of usage-based accounts, the
model explains how exactly usage is transformed into collective and
individual grammar and how these two grammars in turn feed back
into usage. The book is exceptionally broad in scope, with insights
from a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines. It provides a
coherent account of the role of multiple factors that influence
language structure, variation, and change, including frequency,
economy, identity, multilingualism, and language contact.
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