{"product_id":"the-dynamics-of-the-linguistic-hans-jorg-schmid-9780198814771","title":"The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment","description":"This 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. \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hans-Jorg Schmid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198814771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198814771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d","brand":"Hans-Jorg Schmid","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983110078719,"sku":"9780198814771","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9902155-e629-47a0-9fd0-bf0f164e492e.jpg?v=1683264724","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dynamics-of-the-linguistic-hans-jorg-schmid-9780198814771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}