Cognitive Sociolinguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The emergence of Cognitive Sociolinguistics -- 1. Introduction to the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics -- 2. Usage-based linguistics and language-internal variation -- 3. Usage-based vs. rule-based conceptions of language -- 4. Exploring variation of meaning -- 5. Categorization and prototypes -- 6. Language, culture and ideology -- 7. Introduction to the current volume -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- What is to be learned -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The acquisition of the general -- 3. Acquisition of variable patterns -- 4. Acquisition of what is new -- 5. Uniformity and divergence on a larger scale -- 5.1 The acquisition of social values -- 6. The effect of settlement and communication patterns -- 7. The acquisition of cultural values -- 8. From local nonconformity to community norms -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Variation, structure and norms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Norms as foundations -- 3. Langue as a normative feature of the community -- 4. Evolutionary linguistics and the causality of niche construction -- 5. The individual level, emergence and the causal role of community-level facts -- 6. The 'anti-normative' stance -- 7. Summary and final remarks -- References -- Flexibility and change in distributed cognitive systems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Collective - differentially distributed - cognitive structures -- 3. Semantics and pragmatics -- 4. "Culture" as shared differentially distributed pragmatic knowledge -- 5. The requirements of flexibility -- 6. The role culture plays in regard to society and social living -- 7. The role social groups play in culture -- 8. Our social universe is made up of a multiplicity of overlapping social groups.

9. Prototype-extension: the basis of the application of shared concepts to the experienced and imagined world -- 10. Some cultural knowledge systems - shared differentially distributed cognitive structures -- 11. Flexibility and variability -- 12. Some practical implications for analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Pragmatic variation and cultural models -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A framework for studying pragmatic variation -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Research instrument -- 3.2 Population -- 3.3 Analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Sociopragmatic similarities -- 4.2 Pragmalinguistic similarities -- 4.3 Pragmalinguistic differences -- 4.4 Sociopragmatic differences -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Status of findings -- 5.2 Towards an explanation -- 5.3 Cultural scripts -- 5.4 Cultural models -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The usage-based approach to dictionary making -- 3. Conceptual information in learners' dictionaries of English and 'the cultural dictionary' -- 4. L2- and other variety dictionaries of English -- 5. Cognitive-sociolinguistic principles for L2-dictionaries (of English) and their applications -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Spread of on-going changes in an immigrant language -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Turkish in the Netherlands: Sociolinguistic background -- 1.2 Usage-based approaches to language change -- 2. Method -- 2.1 The NL-Turkish Spoken Corpus -- 2.2 Experimental design -- 2.3 The statistical analysis -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Instructions -- Defining the cognitive mechanisms underlying reactions to foreign accented speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research question and hypothesis -- Previous research -- 3. The Associative-Propositional Evaluation (APE) Model.

4. Methodology -- Participants -- Tasks -- Task 1: Implicit Association Test (IAT) -- Task 2: Self report -- Materials -- Accent selection -- The scripts -- The recordings -- Task 3: Self-report -- 5. Results -- 5.1 IAT results -- 5.2 Explicit results -- Discussion and conclusion -- 6. Practical implications -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Table A-1. -- Appendix B -- Table B-1. -- Appendix C -- Scripts for Doctors' Testimonies -- Appendix D -- Table D-1. -- Subject index.