ICLC Theme Session Cognitive Sociolinguistics
At the tenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Kraków, Poland, QLVL co-organized the theme session on Cognitive Sociolinguistics.
Organizers
Dirk Geeraerts, University of LeuvenGitte Kristiansen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Yves Peirsman, University of Leuven
Introduction
Although there is a growing interest within Cognitive Linguistics for language-internal variation (see Kristiansen and Dirven, forthcoming), it remains an understudied area in Cognitive Linguistics. Too often linguistic analyses (or cross-linguistic comparisons) are carried out at the level of 'a language', disregarding rich and complex patterns of intralingual variation. Such a level of granularity ultimately amounts to that of a homogeneous and thus idealized speech community. Cognitive Linguistics, to the extent that it takes the claim that it is a usage-based approach to language and cognition seriously, cannot afford to work with language situated taxonomically at an almost Chomskyan level of abstraction. The purpose of the theme session is therefore to bring together examples of outstanding sociolinguistic research within the field of Cognitive Linguistics.
Schedule
| Tuesday 17 July | |
| 11.50h - 12.20h | Conceptual entrenchment and lexical
uncertainty in dialects. [pdf] Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman |
| 12.20h - 12.50h | On structure
of semantic variation: a usage based approach. [pdf] Justyna Robinson |
| 12.50h - 13.20h | The
semantics of extralinguistic variation. A quantitative
study of dialect effects on polysemy. [pdf] Dylan Glynn, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman |
| lunch break | |
| 14.40h - 15.10h | Measuring
and parameterizing lexical convergence and divergence
between European and Brazilian Portuguese: endo/exogeneousness and foreign and normative influence. [pdf] Augusto Soares da Silva |
| 15.10h - 15.40h | The sem·metrix project. An automation
of the profile-based approach to onomasiological variation.
[pdf] Yves Peirsman and Kris Heylen |
| 15.40h - 16.10h | Entrenchment in Cognitive Sociolinguistics:
variation and change in th-fronting in central Scotland. [pdf] Lynn Clark and Graeme Trousdale |
| 16.10h - 16.40h | Geographical variation in the
acquisition of the Dutch gender system. [pdf] Gunther De Vogelaer |
| coffee break | |
| 17.00h - 17.30h | Lectal
variation in constructional semantics: 'benefactive'
ditransitives in Dutch. [pdf] Timothy Colleman |
| 17.30h - 18.00h | Probing
probabilistic grammars in time, space, and across genres. [pdf] Benedikt Szmrecsanyi |
| 18.00h - 18.30h | Investigations
into the folk's mental models of linguistic varieties. [pdf] Raphael Berthele |
| 18.30h - 19.00h | Lectal
varieties and child language acquisition. [pdf] Gitte Kristiansen |
