"With the notable exception of the application of the metonymy model to explain stereotyping (Kristiansen, 2001), sociolinguistic language attitudes research has typically focused exclusively on explicit attitudes toward foreign accents without providing a cognitive model to exp…
Cognitive sociolinguistics: social and cultural variation in cognition and la…
by Pütz, Martin, International Symposium Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation in its Structural, Conceptual and Cultural Dimensions, Landau, Pfalz, International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, Landau
With the notable exception of the application of the metonymy model to explain stereotyping (Kristiansen, 2001), sociolinguistic language attitudes research has typically focused exclusively on explicit attitudes toward foreign accents without providing a cognitive model to expl…
The present volume tries to answer the question: What constrains morphosyntactic variation? By analyzing the variable agreement of presentational haber ('there to be') in Caribbean Spanish with advanced statistical tools and theoretical constructs of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, …
Main description: Spatial and social cognition are entwined in multiple ways. This volume explores how social, cognitive, neuropsychological and, linguistic approaches converge in explaining the surprising links between space and social thought. Theories and evidence, ranging fr…