The Dynamics of the Linguistic System

Kun Yang and Fei Wang, Southwest Universuty, Cognitive Linguistic Studies - John Benjamins Publishing Company ...the book provides a comprehensive definition of what the language system is and where it locates

Shuang Zhang, Huping Zhang, and Philippe Humbl, Review of Cognitive Linguistics this book is groundbreaking because it is a usage-based account of the linguistic system... Scholars can apply Schmid's model as a theoretical framework for a whole range of empirical studies.

Edgar W. Schneider, English Language and Linguistics This is a ground-breaking magnum opus and a cornerstone of future linguistic thinking and theorizing.

Xiaoming Dong, Harbin Engineering University, China, Journal of Pragmatics 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.

Hans-Joerg 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).

Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1: Introduction Part I: Usage and its potential to feed into conventionalization and entrenchment 2: Usage events and utterance types 3: Co-semiosis and other interpersonal activities 4: Association and cognitive processing 5: Forces affecting usage 6: Summary of Part I Part II: Conventionalization 7: Understanding the process of conventionalization 8: Usualization 9: Diffusion 10: Summary of Part II Part III: Entrenchment 11: Understanding the process of entrenchment 12: The routinization of syntagmatic associations 13: The routinization of symbolic associations 14: The routinization of pragmatic associations 15: Summary of part III: How the four types of associations cooperate and compete for routinization Part IV: Synopsis: The EC-Model as a dynamic complex-adaptive system 16: Summary of the EC-Model 17: Persistence 18: Variation 19: Change 20: Conclusion References Index