Robin Sabino, Ph.D. Univeristy of Pennsylvania (1990), is a Professor of English at Auburn University. She has published on linguistic variation, contact and change, including Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket (Brill, 2012).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Languages Ideology0 Ideology1 Discourse, Ideographs, and the Languages Ideology2 Ongoing Signs of Discontent3 A Plausible Alternative1 The Staying Power of an Illusion1.0 Introduction1.1 A History of the Languages Ideology1.2 The Persistent Power of False Assumptions1.3 Dissenting Voices1.4 Languaging, Not Languages1.5 Summary2 Entrenchment and the Linguistic Individual2.0 Introduction2.1 The Languaging Individual2.2 Usage-based Theory and Emergent Systems2.3 Summary3 Conventionalization and the Illusion of Shared Grammar3.0 Introduction3.1 Similarities between Entrenchment and Conventionalization3.2 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Lexical Items3.3 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Open Slots in Constructions3.4 The Role of Conventionalization in Linguistic Change3.5 Summary4 Vernacularization4.0 Introduction4.1 Indexes, and Indexing4.2 Intersections: Vernacularization, Conventionalization, and the Languages Ideology4.3 Summary5 Conclusion5.0 Introduction5.1 Repeated Calls to Action, Repeated Ideological Reenactment5.2 Liberating Insights Entrapped by the Languages Ideology5.3 Changing the Discourse Appendix IBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index

Robin Sabino, Ph.D. Univeristy of Pennsylvania (1990), is a Professor of English at Auburn University. She has published on linguistic variation, contact and change, including Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket (Brill, 2012).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Languages Ideology0 Ideology1 Discourse, Ideographs, and the Languages Ideology2 Ongoing Signs of Discontent3 A Plausible Alternative1 The Staying Power of an Illusion1.0 Introduction1.1 A History of the Languages Ideology1.2 The Persistent Power of False Assumptions1.3 Dissenting Voices1.4 Languaging, Not Languages1.5 Summary2 Entrenchment and the Linguistic Individual2.0 Introduction2.1 The Languaging Individual2.2 Usage-based Theory and Emergent Systems2.3 Summary3 Conventionalization and the Illusion of Shared Grammar3.0 Introduction3.1 Similarities between Entrenchment and Conventionalization3.2 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Lexical Items3.3 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Open Slots in Constructions3.4 The Role of Conventionalization in Linguistic Change3.5 Summary4 Vernacularization4.0 Introduction4.1 Indexes, and Indexing4.2 Intersections: Vernacularization, Conventionalization, and the Languages Ideology4.3 Summary5 Conclusion5.0 Introduction5.1 Repeated Calls to Action, Repeated Ideological Reenactment5.2 Liberating Insights Entrapped by the Languages Ideology5.3 Changing the Discourse Appendix IBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index

Robin Sabino, Ph.D. Univeristy of Pennsylvania (1990), is a Professor of English at Auburn University. She has published on linguistic variation, contact and change, including Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket (Brill, 2012).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Languages Ideology0 Ideology1 Discourse, Ideographs, and the Languages Ideology2 Ongoing Signs of Discontent3 A Plausible Alternative1 The Staying Power of an Illusion1.0 Introduction1.1 A History of the Languages Ideology1.2 The Persistent Power of False Assumptions1.3 Dissenting Voices1.4 Languaging, Not Languages1.5 Summary2 Entrenchment and the Linguistic Individual2.0 Introduction2.1 The Languaging Individual2.2 Usage-based Theory and Emergent Systems2.3 Summary3 Conventionalization and the Illusion of Shared Grammar3.0 Introduction3.1 Similarities between Entrenchment and Conventionalization3.2 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Lexical Items3.3 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Open Slots in Constructions3.4 The Role of Conventionalization in Linguistic Change3.5 Summary4 Vernacularization4.0 Introduction4.1 Indexes, and Indexing4.2 Intersections: Vernacularization, Conventionalization, and the Languages Ideology4.3 Summary5 Conclusion5.0 Introduction5.1 Repeated Calls to Action, Repeated Ideological Reenactment5.2 Liberating Insights Entrapped by the Languages Ideology5.3 Changing the Discourse Appendix IBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index