Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics

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.

About the author

Dirk Geeraerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Gitte Kristiansen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Yves Peirsman, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dirk Geeraerts (Editor), Gitt Kristiansen (Editor), Gitte Kristiansen (Editor), Yves Peirsman (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2010
• EAN: 9783110226454
• ISBN: 978-3-11-022645-4
• No. of pages: 321
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 26 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 615 g
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research (CLR); Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics