Guest lecture by Hans-Jörg Schmid, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Everyone’s warmly welcome to participate in this event organised by the Linguistic Forum!
The Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model is designed as a socio-cognitive dynamic complex-adaptive model of how language works (Schmid 2015, 2016, 2020). The overarching goal of the model is to explain how three components interact to shape linguistic structure, variation and change:
The basic idea of how this interaction works is that usage mediates between two feedback loops: the conventionalization feedback loop, which creates and sustains linguistic conventions in speech communities, on the one hand, and the entrenchment feedback loop, which creates and sustains patterns of associations in the minds of speakers, on the other. Linguistic structure, variation and change are conceptualized as being emergent in the sense that they are continuously constituted and controlled by this self-reinforcing double feedback system (plus a range of forces acting upon its components).
In my talk I will present the outlines of this model and provide several case studies that are intended to showcase how the model can be applied in empirical studies.
Schmid, H.-J. (2015). "A blueprint of the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model." Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 3(1): 3-25.
Schmid, H.-J. (2016). "Why cognitive linguistics must embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language and how it could do so more seriously." Cognitive Linguistics 27(4): 543-557.
Schmid, H.-J. (2020). The dynamics of the linguistic system. Usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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