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List of contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1: Introduction
- Part I: Usage and its potential to feed into conventionalization and entrenchment
- 2: Usage events and utterance types
- 3: Co-semiosis and other interpersonal activities
- 4: Association and cognitive processing
- 5: Forces affecting usage
- 6: Summary of Part I
- Part II: Conventionalization
- 7: Understanding the process of conventionalization
- 8: Usualization
- 9: Diffusion
- 10: Summary of Part II
- Part III: Entrenchment
- 11: Understanding the process of entrenchment
- 12: The routinization of syntagmatic associations
- 13: The routinization of symbolic associations
- 14: The routinization of pragmatic associations
- 15: Summary of part III: How the four types of associations cooperate and compete for routinization
- Part IV: Synopsis: The EC-Model as a dynamic complex-adaptive system
- 16: Summary of the EC-Model
- 17: Persistence
- 18: Variation
- 19: Change
- 20: Conclusion
- References
- Index
About the author
Hans-Jörg Schmid is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. He has taught at Westfield College, London, and at the universities of Dresden, Bochum, and Bayreuth. His research has been devoted to a wide range of fields in linguistics including lexical semantics, grammar, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, word-formation, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic theory. His recent publications include English Morphology and Word-Formation (3rd edition; Erich Schmidt, 2016) and, as editor, Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning: How We Reorganize and Adapt Linguistic Knowledge (APA/De Gruyter 2017), Cognitive Pragmatics: Handbooks of Pragmatics Volume 4 (De Gruyter 2012), and Constructions - Collocations - Patterns (with Thomas Herbst and Susen Faulhaber; De Gruyter 2014).
Summary
This book offers a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. Schmid argues that linguistic structure is not stable, but continually refreshed by usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. This wide-ranging volume will be of interest to linguists from a wide range of fields.
