{"product_id":"dynamics-of-the-linguistic-system-usage-conventionalization-and-entrenchment-9780198814771","title":"Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hans-Jorg Schmid\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 cognitive processes that are also linked to these activities in a feedback loop. Hans-Jorg Schmid explains how this multiple feedback system works by extending his Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model, showing how the linguistic system is created, sustained, and continually adapted by the ongoing interaction between usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. Fulfilling the promise of usage-based accounts, the model explains how exactly usage is transformed into collective and individual grammar and how these two grammars in turn feed back into usage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is exceptionally broad in scope, with insights from a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines. It provides a coherent account of the role of multiple factors that influence language structure, variation, and change, including frequency, economy, identity, multilingualism, and language contact.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46418965430423,"sku":"9780198814771","price":17415.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198814771.webp?v=1769072712","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dynamics-of-the-linguistic-system-usage-conventionalization-and-entrenchment-9780198814771","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}