The cognitive foundation of post-colonial Englishes : construction grammar as the cognitive theory for the dynamic model /

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Varieties of English are spoken all over the world from Africa to Asia, from Europe to America. In addition to its use as a foreign language, English in many of these countries is a first or second language variety that initially arose in a colonial setting. Currently, the most influential socioling...

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1. Verfasser:
Hoffmann, Thomas
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Zusammenfassung:
Varieties of English are spoken all over the world from Africa to Asia, from Europe to America. In addition to its use as a foreign language, English in many of these countries is a first or second language variety that initially arose in a colonial setting. Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of these 'Post-Colonial Englishes' is the Dynamic Model. In this Element, I outline how Construction Grammar, the most prominent cognitive syntactic theory, can provide a cognitive foundation for the assumptions made by the Dynamic Model. As I shall argue, Construction Grammar naturally complements the Dynamic Model and, in addition to that, a 'Constructionist Grammar Approach to the Dynamic Model' approach generates new research questions concerning the productivity of syntactic patterns across Dynamic Model phases.
Umfang:
1 online resource (59 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Nov 2021).
ISBN:
9781108909730 (ebook)
ISSN:
2633-3309
DOI:
10.1017/9781108909730
Schlagworte:
Construction grammar.
English language > Foreign countries.
Sociolinguistics.
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