The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes
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The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes

Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model

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eBook - PDF

The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes

Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes: Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model
  5. References