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

by Hans-Jorg Schmid

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"