TY  - JOUR
A1  - Peters, Arne
A1  - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan
T1  - Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth
BT  - a portrait-corpus study
JF  - Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science
N2  - Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience.
KW  - language portraits
KW  - embodiment
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - cognitive
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - cultural conceptualisations
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0101
SN  - 0936-5907
SN  - 1613-3641
SN  - 1861-048X
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
SP  - 579
EP  - 608
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerstenberg, Annette
A1  - Lindholm, Camilla
T1  - Language and aging research
BT  - new insights and perspectives
JF  - Linguistics vanguard
N2  - Our introduction to the special collection gives an overview of the research projects which were originally presented at the third CLARe network conference. We group the research under four cross-sectional topics that unite the different contributions: the data used in the research, the theoretical frameworks, the languages and varieties which are represented and the situational contexts which are examined. These projects represent the current state of research in this field and allows the reader to orient themselves within this diverse field but also leaves many questions open and provides impetus for future lines of research. The interaction and collaboration between diverse disciplines is the central aspect which unites all contributions to the special collection.
KW  - language and aging
KW  - lifespan
KW  - health communication
KW  - language change
KW  - interactional linguistics
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - psycholinguistics
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - computational linguistics
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0025
SN  - 2199-174X
VL  - 5
IS  - s2
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leung, Ray C. H.
T1  - A corpus-based analysis of textbooks used in the orientation course for immigrants in Germany: Ideological and pedagogic implications
JF  - Journal of Language and Cultural Education
KW  - orientation course
KW  - immigrants
KW  - Germany
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - textbooks
KW  - ideologies
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0030
SN  - 1339-4045
SN  - 1339-4584
VL  - 4
SP  - 154
EP  - 177
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -