'Metonymy'is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of
shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words …

Languages are subject to change, but they are also stable. The linguistic knowledge of the
members of speech communities is similar, but also differs in many ways. Language use …

This chapter introduces the main facets of the notion of entrenchment and highlights its role
as a potential mediator between linguistic and psychological approaches to the study of …

En cierta ocasión alguien me preguntó cuál era el principal objetivo de mi investigación:
conocer la lengua o conocer al ser humano. Recuerdo que, tras una breve reflexión, afirmé …

Sociolinguistic Styles presents a new and in-depth, historically rooted overview of the
phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistic variation. Written by an internationally …

In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their
investigation into the roots and development of language. With the advent of cognitive …

Mainstream grammatical theory and traditional grammaticography concentrate on single
languages or varieties, which are conceptualised as pre-existing, distinct entities and …

What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they'figure out'on the basis of
that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at …

Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die zentralen Methoden und Theorien der
Spracheinstellungsforschung sowie ihre aktuell und traditionell häufigsten …

The development of Sociolinguistics has been qualitatively and quantitatively outstanding
within Linguistic Science since its beginning in the 1950s, with a steady growth in both …