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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.

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Author:   Robin Sabino
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Edition:   Approx. XIII, 139 Pp., Index ed.
Volume:   18
Weight:   0.424kg
ISBN:  

9789004364585

ISBN 10:   9004364587
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   14 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Languages Ideology 0 Ideology 1 Discourse, Ideographs, and the Languages Ideology 2 Ongoing Signs of Discontent 3 A Plausible Alternative 1 The Staying Power of an Illusion 1.0 Introduction 1.1 A History of the Languages Ideology 1.2 The Persistent Power of False Assumptions 1.3 Dissenting Voices 1.4 Languaging, Not Languages 1.5 Summary 2 Entrenchment and the Linguistic Individual 2.0 Introduction 2.1 The Languaging Individual 2.2 Usage-based Theory and Emergent Systems 2.3 Summary 3 Conventionalization and the Illusion of Shared Grammar 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Similarities between Entrenchment and Conventionalization 3.2 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Lexical Items 3.3 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Open Slots in Constructions 3.4 The Role of Conventionalization in Linguistic Change 3.5 Summary 4 Vernacularization 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Indexes, and Indexing 4.2 Intersections: Vernacularization, Conventionalization, and the Languages Ideology 4.3 Summary 5 Conclusion 5.0 Introduction 5.1 Repeated Calls to Action, Repeated Ideological Reenactment 5.2 Liberating Insights Entrapped by the Languages Ideology 5.3 Changing the Discourse Appendix I Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

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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).

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