Through the Linguistic Silk Road

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Part I: Introduction
4. Cognitive Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century 3
5. Part II: Lexicology and Lexical Semantics
6. Lexical Variation in Chinese Climbing Verb 23
7. Elicitation of Basic PUT&TAKE Verbs – An Experimental Approach 35
8. De Nagel or de Spijker op de Kop? 48
9. Keywords and Onomasiology 58
10. Digital Games as a Source of English Vocabulary for Finnish Writers 69
11. Frame Semantics Variation 81
12. Part III: Figurative Language
13. Framing in American and British Governmental Discourse about Covid-19 97
14. The Importance of Context in CMT 107
15. Variation and Socio-cultural Embodiment in Metaphors for Social Change 117
16. Variational Patterns of LOVE in Hungarian 127
17. Part IV: Lectometry
18. Profiles Visiting Procrustes 139
19. Exploring the Use of Levenshtein Distances to Calculate the Intelligibility of Foreignaccented Speech 153
20. Regional Variation in the Polish Discourses of Collective Memory 165
21. Language Variation in Dialect-standard Contact Situations 175
22. Scoring with Token-based Models 186
23. Part V: Diachronic and Historical Research
24. The Sociolinguistics of the Neo-Latin Word dialectus 203
25. A Corpus-Based Approach to Conceptual History of Ancient Greek 213
26. A Sociopragmatic Account of the se Passive in (pre-)Classical Spanish 226
27. System and Variation in the Dutch Modals 242
28. Indestructible Insights 251
29. Complexity in Complementation 264
30. Part VI: The Social Meaning of Language Variation
31. Chinese Listeners’ Attitudes Towards Shanghai-accented Standard Chinese Across Five Regions 279
32. Dialect Divergence at the State Border 295
33. Cognitive Sociolinguistics in Development 310
34. Cognitive Sociolinguistics in Northeastern Peninsular Romance Frontier Varieties 324
35. Palatalization: Variation and Social Meaning 339
36. Part VII: Grammatical Variation
37. Lache, Giere, Boeie 359
38. From Big Brother to IKEA 371
39. Does Standardization Affect the Type of Motivating Factors that Determine Language Variation? 384
40. Register Variation in a Cognitive (Socio)linguistics Perspective 398
41. Intra- and Inter-textual Syntactic Priming in Original and Translated English 410
42. Categoriality in the English Gerund System 422
43. Part VIII: Reflections on the Field
44. Metonymies in Sociocognitive Linguistics – a Plea for “Normal Science” 435
45. Speakers, Languages, and Multilingual Thank You Slides 446
46. Cognitive Sociolinguistic Studies of African English 457
47. Through the Linguistic Silk Road 467
48. Revisiting the Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach to Pluricentricity 477
49. Cognitive Sociolinguistics from the Perspective of Recontextualization 490
50. Sacred and Profane 500
51. Part IX: New Directions through Interdisciplinary Work
52. Historical Cognitive Sociolinguistics 513
53. How to Understand “Integration” in the Context of EU Migration 523
54. Revisiting the Retranslation Hypothesis Supported by Insights in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Complexity 534
55. Monitoring the Pretence 544
56. Laboratory Sociolinguistics 557
57. Guessing Words 572
58. Changing Preferences in Cultural References 584
59. A Usage-based Approach to Persistent Spelling Errors 596
60. Applying Behavioural Profiles to Multimodal Discourse Analysis 606
61. Speaker Design Goes Construction Grammar 621
62. Index 633