Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Rationale, methods and
scope
Gitte Kristiansen and Ren Dirven
Part one: Theoretical aspects: Semantic and lectal variation
Prototypes, stereotypes, and semantic norms
Dirk Geeraerts
Style-shifting and shifting styles: A socio-cognitive approach to
lectal variation
Gitte Kristiansen
Part two: Usage-based variation research
Methodological issues in corpus-based Cognitive Linguistics
Kris Heylen, Jos Tummers, Dirk Geeraerts
Channel and constructional meaning: A collostructional case
study
Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Th Gries
National variation in the use of er "there" Regional and
diachronic constraints on cognitive explanations
Stefan Grondelaers, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts
Variation in the choice of adjectives in the two main national
varieties of Dutch
Dirk Speelman, Stefan Grondelaers and Dirk Geeraerts
Part three: Cultural models of language and language policy
Rationalist and romantic models in globalisation?
Frank Polzenhagen and Ren Dirven
A nation is a territory with one culture and one language:
The role of metaphorical folk models in language policy debates
Raphael Berthele
Cultural models of Home in Aboriginal children's English
Farzad Sharifian
A Cognitive Linguistic approach to the cultures of World
Englishes: The emergence of a new model
Hans-Georg Wolf
Part four: Sociopolitical systems
Corporate brands as socio-cognitive representations
Veronika Koller
Metaphorically speaking: Gender and classroom discourse
Susan Fiksdal
The business model of the university: Sources and consequences
of its construal
Nancy Urban
Competition, cooperation, and interconnection: 'Metaphor fami-
lies' and social systems
Pamela S Morgan
How cognitive linguists can help to solve political problems
Karol Janicki
Subject index