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LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN SEITE 11 VON 41<br />
Keynotes<br />
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schmid, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München<br />
The way language works. How entrenchment and Conventionalization shape linguistic structure<br />
and usage<br />
Languages appear to be stable systems, but they also change. Speakers of one language share<br />
knowledge about their language, but this knowledge also seems to differ. The talk will sketch the<br />
outlines of a metatheory of language which tries to account for these observations. Empirical data<br />
demonstrating the need for such a theory will be presented.<br />
The model proposed combines cognitive processes taking place in the minds of individual speakers,<br />
on the one hand, and social processes taking place in speech situations and society at large, on the<br />
other. It assumes that the interaction between these two types of processes, on the one hand, and the<br />
use of language in social situations, on the other, brings about language structure and is also<br />
responsible for language change. Forces influencing this interaction are identified. While the model is<br />
broad in scope, integrating as it does structural, cognitive, sociolinguistic and pragmatic<br />
considerations, it is also parsimonious in aiming to get by with the minimum number of processes<br />
required to explain the full complexity of linguistic structure, usage and change.
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