Title: Ten lectures on cognitive sociolinguistics /
Authors: Geeraerts, Dirk, 1955-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Cognitive grammar Social aspects.
Abstract: Cognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These 'Ten Lectures', a transcribed version of talks given by professor Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing, introduce and illustrate both dimensions. The?variation of meaning? perspective involves looking at types of semantic and categorial variation, at the role of social and cultural factors in semantic variation and change, and at the interplay of stereotypes, prototypes and norms. The?meaning of variation? perspective involves looking at the way in which categorization processes of the type studied by Cognitive Linguistics shape how scholars and laymen think about language variation.
Contents: The social turn in cognitive linguistics -- Types of semantic and categorial variation -- Diachronic prototype semantics -- Stereotypes, prototypes and norms -- The cultural history of metaphors -- Cultural models of language variation -- Lexical variation as a sociolinguistic variable -- Measuring lexical variation and change -- Multivariate models of linguistic variation -- The linguistic system in a usage-based model of language.