EAN: 9783110341300

ENTRENCHMENT AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE LEA...

In recent years  linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their
investigation into the roots and development of language. With the advent of
cognitive-linguistic  usage-based and complex-adaptive models of language  linguists today are
utilizing approaches and insights from cognitive psychology  neuropsychology  social psychology
and other related fields. A key result of this interdisciplinary approach is the concept of
entrenchment?the ongoing reorganization and adaptation of communicative knowledge. Entrenchment
posits that our linguistic knowledge is continuously refreshed and reorganized under the
influence of social interactions. It is part of a larger  ongoing process of lifelong cognitive
reorganization whose course and quality is conditioned by exposure to and use of language  and
by the application of cognitive abilities and processes to language. This volume enlists more
than two dozen experts in the fields of linguistics  psycholinguistics  neurology  and
cognitive psychology in providing a realistic picture of the psychological and linguistic
foundations of language. Contributors examine the psychological foundations of linguistic
entrenchment processes  and the role of entrenchment in first-language acquisition  second
language learning  and language attrition. Critical views of entrenchment and some of its
premises and implications are discussed from the perspective of dynamic complexity theory and
radical embodied cognitive science.

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