The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment

ISBN-13: 9780198814771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 432 str.

Hans-Jorg Schmid

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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).