Overview

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable and uniform, but continually refreshed by the interaction between three components: usage, the communicative activities of speakers; conventionalization, the social processes triggered by these activities and feeding back into them; and entrenchment, the individual cognitive processes that are also linked to these activities in a feedback loop. Hans-Jörg Schmid explains how this multiple feedback system works by extending his Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model, showing how the linguistic system is created, sustained, and continually adapted by the ongoing interaction between usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. Fulfilling the promise of usage-based accounts, the model explains how exactly usage is transformed into collective and individual grammar and how these two grammars in turn feed back into usage.The book is exceptionally broad in scope, with insights from a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines. It provides a coherent account of the role of multiple factors that influence language structure, variation, and change, including frequency, economy, identity, multilingualism, and language contact.

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Author:   Hans-Jörg Schmid (Full Professor of English Linguistics, Full Professor of English Linguistics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.848kg
ISBN:  

9780198814771

ISBN 10:   0198814771
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   09 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1: Introduction Part I: Usage and its potential to feed into conventionalization and entrenchment 2: Usage events and utterance types 3: Co-semiosis and other interpersonal activities 4: Association and cognitive processing 5: Forces affecting usage 6: Summary of Part I Part II: Conventionalization 7: Understanding the process of conventionalization 8: Usualization 9: Diffusion 10: Summary of Part II Part III: Entrenchment 11: Understanding the process of entrenchment 12: The routinization of syntagmatic associations 13: The routinization of symbolic associations 14: The routinization of pragmatic associations 15: Summary of part III: How the four types of associations cooperate and compete for routinization Part IV: Synopsis: The EC-Model as a dynamic complex-adaptive system 16: Summary of the EC-Model 17: Persistence 18: Variation 19: Change 20: Conclusion References Index

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The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment...pioneers the systematic examination of how usage, conventionalization and entrenchment interact to create the linguistic system....Put at its briefest, Schmid proposes the EC-Model by analogizing the way language works as a Tinguely machine, contributing to our understanding of the nature and location of the linguistic system. The theoretical and methodological implications of the model are worth exploring by scholars in many fields, such as functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, socio-linguistics, psycho-linguistics, etc. * Xiaoming Dong, Harbin Engineering University, China, Journal of Pragmatics *

Author Information

Hans-Jörg Schmid is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. He has taught at Westfield College, London, and at the universities of Dresden, Bochum, and Bayreuth. His research has been devoted to a wide range of fields in linguistics including lexical semantics, grammar, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, word-formation, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic theory. His recent publications include English Morphology and Word-Formation (3rd edition; Erich Schmidt, 2016) and, as editor, Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning: How We Reorganize and Adapt Linguistic Knowledge (APA/De Gruyter 2017), Cognitive Pragmatics: Handbooks of Pragmatics Volume 4 (De Gruyter 2012), and Constructions - Collocations - Patterns (with Thomas Herbst and Susen Faulhaber; De Gruyter 2014).

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