Cognitive sociolinguistics
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УДК 81'272 КОМУНІКАТИВНА СТРАТЕГІЯ ХЕДЖУВАННЯ В ДИСКУРСІ ПОЛІТИЧНОГО ІНТЕРВ'Ю (гендерний аспект) Курченко Ліна Миколаївна канд. філол. наук Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка У статті аналізуються дискурсивні... more
Work in Spanish Abstract and conclusions available in the text in English, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic according to the index Título en español: La jaquetía de la comunidad judía de Melilla en el siglo XXI: entre remanentes... more
A language is considered as a sexist language if it conveys attitudes that stereotype a person according to gender rather than judging on individual merits. Feminists believe that English language is a sexist language because it involves... more
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... more
Este estudio investiga la producción a través del role-play de tres actos de habla en español por parte de tres grupos diferentes de hablantes: nativos de español, nativos de inglés con un nivel avanzado de español, y nativos de inglés... more
Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due to its social stigmatization and inherent linguistic complexity. Recently, though, there has been a renewed interest in revisiting the... more
Two key elements reveal a step change in Sociolinguistics towards a more flexible perspective: the study of semantic variation and the inclusion of microsociological variables. This article is a theoretical proposal to combine the two... more
The dissemination of the standard form of the language has not always been easy for such languages as Catalan. Even so, the standard form of Catalan has taken root among the Valen-cian people with a certain success (Segura, 2003;... more
Within sociocognitive linguistics, the notions of social knowledge and its structures are central. Cognitive researchers have offered a number of terms to refer to these structures: social stereotypes, context models, ICM, cultural... more
This chapter provides an overview of cognitive sociolinguistics, framed in such a way that opportunities for new research should become apparent. In order to achieve this, I relate cognitive sociolinguistics to the domains of inquiry from... more
(This is just the abstract - the publisher has requested that we do not release our actual papers publicly for two years.) This lexical semantic and sociopragmatic analysis of terms for genitalia in Japanese aims to contribute to the... more
Endangered languages from sociolinguistic and metaphorical perspectives The opinions on language esp. endangered language are an important indicator of particular language situation. At the same time, current theoretical approaches as... more
"This article contributes to the nascent field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. In particular, we are interested in how usage-based cognitive linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics may enrich each other. We first discuss some of the... more
The present paper focuses on the sociolinguistic study of Pola de Siero spoken language. One of the main challenges of producing reliable data is to clearly define the methodology: on the basis of variationism, the central tenet of our... more
In line with the "usage-based" view of language, cognitive linguistics began to shift from exploring the experientiality and universality of cognition to the study of semantic variation centered on cognitive and social interaction,... more
This study addresses the media representations of Coronavirus pandemic in two of the leading Turkish newspapers: Sözcü and Sabah. Sözcü has the highest circulation in Turkish print media with an ideology critical of the government and... more
Cognitive Sociolinguistics, institutionalized in the recent collective volume published by Kristiansen & Dirven (2008), is one of the most recent and stimulating extensions of Cognitive Linguistics which intends to investigate the... more
This study investigates developing linguistic prestige of the standard/local varieties in bidialectal kindergarteners whose linguistic environment has a high level of interference between two varieties of different social prestige. To... more
Current ‘Speaker Design’ approaches to sociolinguistic variation investigate how speakers may pro-actively deploy the linguistic resources (variation) at their disposal to achieve certain communicative effects. In this paper, Speaker... more
Usage-based approaches to language stress that a speaker’s mental grammar arises from and is shaped by language use and that the resulting mental representations include rich contextual linguistic and non-linguistic information. Yet,... more
In this paper, I propose that Probabilistic Grammar may benefit from incorporating theoretical insights from Cognitive (Socio)Linguistics. Particularly, I begin by introducing Cognitive Linguistics. Then, I propose a model of the... more
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In this short write-up, I try to capture how patriarchal tendency in historicization end up depicting a one-sided, narrow, and fundamentally myopic view of social phenomenon (the Bengali Language rights' movement in then East Pakistan, in... more
This book is concerned with pidgin and creole languages. This statement might well give the impression that we know precisely what is meant by these terms. In fact they are the subject ofmuch debate. Creolists agree neither about the... more
http://lym.linguas.net/Download.axd?type=ArticleItem&id=76 RESUMEN El presente trabajo propone una reflexión conceptual sobre la subjetividad lingüística aplicada al contacto conflictivo producido por la migración. Valiéndose de los... more
Earlier work on existential agreement variation in British English and Caribbean Spanish has made a convincing case for the hypothesis that existential agreement variation is constrained by three domain-general cognitive constraints on... more
Throughout most of the 20th century, analytical and reductionist approaches have dominated in biological, social, and humanistic sciences, including linguistics and communication. We generally believed we could account for fundamental... more
En otro artículo (Claes, 2014b) establecimos que la pluralización de haber presentacional constituye un cambio desde abajo en el español de La Habana, Cuba. Más precisamente, apoyándonos en la gramática de construcciones, mostramos que la... more
In this article, we investigate the pluralization of presentational haber (e.g. Habían fiestas. ‘There were parties.’) in the Spanish of Havana, Santo Domingo and San Juan. Drawing on Goldberg’s (1995. Constructions. Chicago: Chicago... more
Lexical diversity, the amount of lexical variation shown by a particular concept, varies between concepts. For the concept DRUNK, for instance, nearly 3000 English expressions exist, including blitzed, intoxicated, and hammered. For the... more
Invited talk at the round table "La Sociolingüística en España" within the Sociolinguistics Symposium in Murcia, June 2016.
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This paper is based on a nascent project on Lancashire dialect grammar, which aims to describe the relevant features of this dialect and to engage with related theoretical and methodological debates. We show how corpora allow one to... more