Soares da Silva Pluricentricity

Language Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-030364-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 289 Seiten

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The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community. Linguistic pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon; it can be understood as either differing national standards or differing local norms. The nine 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. They include research undertaken in both the Cognitive Linguistic and socolinguistic tradition, with particular emphasis upon the emerging framework of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Six languages, all more or less pluricentric, are analyzed: four Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch and Swedish) and two Romance languages (Portuguese and French). The volume describes patterns of phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic variation, and perception and attitudes in relation to these pluricentric languages. It makes use of advanced empirical methods able to account for the complex interplay between conceptual and social aspects of pluricentric variation and other forms of language-internal variation.

Zielgruppe

General Linguists, Cognitive Linguists, Sociolinguists, Language Teachers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soares da Silva, Augusto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;7
2;Table of contents;9
3;List of contributors;11
4;IntroductionPluricentricity, language-internal variation and Cognitive Linguistics;13
5;Part I: Theoretical perspectives;29
6;Enregistering pluricentric German;31
7;Communicative and cognitive dimensions of pluricentric practices in French;61
8;Linguistic pluricentrism as a neurological problem;95
9;Part II: Corpus-based studies;113
10;Lexical variation in aggregate perspective;115
11;Stable Lexical Marker Analysis: A corpus-based identification of lexical variation;139
12;The pluricentricity of Portuguese: A sociolectometrical approach to divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese;155
13;Part III: Experimental and attitudinal studies;201
14;Global diffusion, regional attraction, local roots? Sociocognitive perspectives on the pluricentricity of English;203
15;Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch;239
16;National variation of address in pluricentric languages: The examples of Swedish and German;255
17;Subject index;283
18;Author index;287

Über Autor(innen)

Augusto Soares da Silva, Catholic University of Portugal, Braga, Portugal.