Languaging Without Languages

Beyond metro-, multi-, poly-, pluri- and translanguaging

AvRobin Sabino

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del 18 i serien Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

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Beskrivning

Drawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates an elegant model accommodating accumulated insights into human language even as it frees linguistics from its two-thousand-year-old, ideological attachment to reified grammatical systems. Idiolects are redefined as continually emergent collections of context specific, probabilistic memories entrenched as a result of domain-general cognitive processes that create and consolidate linguistic experience. Also continually emergent, conventionalization and vernacularization operate across individuals producing the illusion of shared grammatical systems. Conventionalization results from the emergence of parallel expectations for the use of linguistic elements organized into syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. In parallel, vernacularization indexes linguistic forms to sociocultural identities and stances. Evidence implying entrenchment and conventionalization is provided in asymmetrical frequency distributions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:424 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Antal sidor:166
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004364585

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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).

Innehållsförteckning

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