【簡介】A union of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics was bound to happen. Both Proclaim a usage-based approach to language and aim to analyse actual language use in objective ways. Whereas Sociol
The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issue
The papers in this volume introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and
The essays in this volume combine the fields of cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. They demonstrate the manner in which spoken, non-standard language is factored into linguistic studies givin
