Cognitive Sociolinguistics Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use
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Since their very inception, Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Grammar have explicitly recognized the fundamental role of social, cultural, and interactive factors. Yet because this recognition has been more a matter of principle than actual practice, the full potential for the mutual enrichment of descriptive-theoretical concerns on the one hand, and sociolinguistic investigation on the other hand, has only begun to be realized. This volume on Cognitive Sociolinguistics points the way toward their meaningful integration. The contributions combine a keen awareness of higher-level issues with the insight that only comes with immersion in the details of usage and variation. One can only be impressed by the quality of the research, the variety of questions addressed, and the range of empirical methods employed.
- Ronald W. Langacker, University of San Diego,
<i>Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and Cultural Variation in Cognition and Language Use</i> should be a fascinating read for both cognitive linguists and sociolinguists along with anyone else who might be interested in the language-cognition-culturesociety intersection.
- Kim Ebensgaard Jensen, Aalborg University, on Linguist List 26.1176 (02/03/2015),
This collection contains important contributions in the new field of cognitive sociolinguistics, an interdisciplinary theory aimed at understanding cognitive, social and cultural constraints on linguistic variation. Moving beyond modularity to viewing language variation as an integrated part of general cognition provides a solid foundation for a fruitful new alliance between cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics capable of achieving significant insights into language use and social meaning.
- Suzanne Romaine, University of Oxford,
This fascinating collection shows cognitive linguistics gradually coming to terms with social aspects of cognition - how familiar cognitive processes such as categorization apply to the people and situations in which we interact, how variation and attitudes might be modelled cognitively, and how intimately the social context is embedded in our cognition for language and meaning. Indeed, Labov’s contribution argues that our ‘outwardly bound’ language learning capacity is programmed to be sensitive to such things. Hopefully, this collection will persuade other sociolinguists to explore a more cognitive orientation in their work too.
- Richard Hudson, University College London,