Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

✍ Scribed by Dirk Geeraerts

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Series: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Contents
Note on Supplementary Material
Preface
How to Use This Text
About the Author
Lecture 1: The Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics
Handout Lecture 1
Lecture 2: Types of Semantic and Categorial Variation
Handout Lecture 2
Lecture 3: Diachronic Prototype Semantics
Handout Lecture 3
Lecture 4: Stereotypes, Prototypes and Norms
Handout Lecture 4
Lecture 5: The Cultural History of Metaphors
Handout Lecture 5
Lecture 6: Cultural Models of Language Variation
Handout Lecture 6
Lecture 7: Lexical Variation as a Sociolinguistic Variable
Handout Lecture 7
Lecture 8 Measuring Lexical Variation and Change
Handout Lecture 8
Lecture 9: Multivariate Models of Linguistic Variation
Handout Lecture 9
Lecture 10: The Linguistic System in a Usage-Based Model of Language
Handout Lecture 10
Further Reading
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers