Cognitive Contact Linguistics - Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change

This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change.

Combining the study of the individual mind with the study of shared context, bridging research on experience and perspective with research on variation and change, and tackling the methodological complexities that this empirical approach to mental categorization entails, help us determine how the meaningful units that make up language are categorized and structured in the bi- and multilingual mind and, by extension, in any human mind.

Together, the ten papers in this volume reveal the complexities of the interaction between usage, meaning and mind in contact-induced variation and change, which we hope will inspire future research exploring the possibilities of the cross-fertilization we have labeled Cognitive Contact Linguistics.

About the author

Eline Zenner, KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium; Ad Backus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Esme Winter-Froemel, Universität Trier.

Product details

• Assisted by: A Backus (Editor), Ad Backus (Editor), Esme Winter-Froemel (Editor), Eline Zenner (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2020
• EAN: 9783110707991
• ISBN: 978-3-11-070799-1
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 20 mm x 232 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Illustrations: 40 b/w ill., 27 b/w tbl.
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; Cognitive Linguistics Research; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics