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

by Hans-Jorg Schmid

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This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable and uniform, but continually refreshed by the interaction between three components: usage, the communicative activities of speakers; conventionalization, the social processes triggered by these activities and feeding back into them; and entrenchment, the individual...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198814771

ISBN13:9780198814771

Release Date:March 2020

Publisher:Oxford Univ PR

Length:432 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Language Arts

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