Cultural models of linguistic standardization

In line with well-known trends in cultural theory (see Burke et al., 2000), Cognitive Linguistics has stressed the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models – ‘cultural models’ or ‘folk theories’: from Holland & Quinn (1987) over Lakoff (1996) and Palmer (1996) to Dirven et al....

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Main Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Diacronia 2016-02-01
Series:Diacronia
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Online Access:http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/4/A36/en/pdf