Pluricentricity : language variation and sociocognitive dimensions /
The studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. The volume describes patterns of phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic va...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
Publication Dates: | [2013] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Applications of cognitive linguistics [acl];
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Summary: |
The studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. The volume describes patterns of phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic variation, and language attitudes. It brings together Cognitive Linguistics and sociolinguistics and makes use of advanced empirical methods. The volume addresses a wider audience of scholars including linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and language planners and teachers. |
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1 online resource(xii,277pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
ISBN: | 9783110303643(electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | P120 |
CLC: | H0 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Enregistering pluricentric German / Communicative and cognitive dimensions of pluricentric practices in French / Linguistic pluricentrism as a neurological problem / Lexical variation in aggregate perspective / Stable Lexical Marker Analysis: A corpus-based identification of lexical variation / The pluricentricity of Portuguese: A sociolectometrical approach to divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese / Global diffusion, regional attraction, local roots? Sociocognitive perspectives on the pluricentricity of English / Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch / National variation of address in pluricentric languages: The examples of Swedish and German / Subject index -- Author index. |