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This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword
research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and
structuralist perspective. The eight studies in this volume
introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological
innovations to the study of lexical borrowing. These new
perspectives significantly enhance our understanding of lexical
borrowing and provide new insights into contact-induced variation
and change.
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.
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 social variation in
language as it manifests itself in the usage data. Nor can it fail
to adopt an empirical methodology that reflects variation as it
actually occurs, beyond the limited knowledge of the individual
observer. Conversely, while CL can only benefit from a heightened
sensitivity to social aspects, the rich, bottom-up theoretical
framework it has developed is likely to contribute to a much better
understanding of the meaning of variationist phenomena. This volume
brings together fifteen chapters written by prominent scholars
testifying of rich empirical and theoretizing research into the
social aspects of language variation. Taking a broad view on
Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the volume covers three main areas:
corpus-based research on language variation, cognitive cultural
models, and the ideologies of sociopolitical and socio-economic
systems.
Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives
is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics
and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings
together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of
Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an
asset not only to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to
neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume
covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with
a highly specific information value. Key features: An excellent
source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the
most popular and fastest growing areas in Linguistics.
Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in
the field. Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized
by a highly specific information value.
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