Co-Occurrence, Extension, and Social Salience: The Emergence of Indexicality in an Artificial Language
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13290
Abstract: We investigated the emergence of sociolinguistic indexicality using an artificial-language-learning paradigm. Sociolinguistic indexicality involves the association of linguistic variants with nonlinguistic social or contextual features. Any linguistic variant can acquire "constellations" of such indexical meanings,… read more here.
Keywords: artificial language; language; indexicality; emergence ... See more keywords
Indexicality, meaning, use
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DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0056
Abstract: Abstract The article presents two concepts of indexicality. The first, more standard and narrow, identifies indexicality with systematic (meaning controlled) context-sensitivity. The second, broader (derived from the work of Jerzy Pelc), conceives indexicality in terms… read more here.
Keywords: indexicality; indexicality meaning; use; meaning use ... See more keywords