The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes : Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model

by Thomas Hoffmann

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Elements in World Englishes

ISBN-10 1108829236

ISBN-13 9781108829236

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 9th, 2021

Print length 75 Pages

Weight 120 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.90 x 0.80 cms

Product Classification: Sociolinguistics

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Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of '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.

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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