Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes : Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model PDF
by Thomas Hoffmann
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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 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.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/12/2021
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