Da Silva Augusto Soares (Editor). Pluricentricity: Language Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions

De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — xii, 277 pages. — (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-11-030364-3.The studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. The volume describes patterns of phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic variation, and language attitudes. It brings together Cognitive Linguistics and sociolinguistics and makes use of advanced empirical methods. The volume addresses a wider audience of scholars including linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and language planners and teachers.Introduction. Pluricentricity, language-internal variation and Cognitive Linguistics
Theoretical perspectives
Enregistering pluricentric German
Communicative and cognitive dimensions of pluricentric practices in French
Linguistic pluricentrism as a neurological problem
Corpus-based studies
Lexical variation in aggregate perspective
Stable Lexical Marker Analysis: A corpus-based identification of lexical variation
The pluricentricity of Portuguese: A sociolectometrical approach to divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese
Experimental and attitudinal studies
Global diffusion, regional attraction, local roots? Sociocognitive perspectives on the pluricentricity of English
Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch
National variation of address in pluricentric languages: The examples of Swedish and German