Handouts - Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Dirk Geeraerts
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<p>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.</p>
2018-09-16 09:46:27
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