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Lecture 1 Introduction and Survey
1.1 What these lectures are about
1.2 Fundamental questions
1.3 Conceptual and terminological foundations
1.4 Methodological aspects:the role ofcorpora
1.5 Summary and mission statement
Lecture 2 Doing Language:Usage
2.1 What do we dowhen we use language
2.2 Interpersonal activity
2.3 Sensory activity
2.4 Motor activity
2.5 Cognitive activity
2.6 Summary and outlook
Lecture 3 Knowing Language I: How Entrenchment Works
3.1 The basic idea behind entrenchment
3.2 Psychological aspects ofentrenchment
3.3 Routinization and schematization
3.4 Input to and effect ofentrenchment
3.5 Summary and outlook
Lecture 4 Knowing Language II:How Entrenchment Creates Structure on the Cognitive Level
4.1 The basic idea behind entrenchment revisited
4.2 The routinization ofsymbolic associations:context-free entrenchment
4.3 The routinization ofsyntagmatic associations:co-textual entrenchment
4.4 The interaction ofsyntagmatic and paradigmatic associations
4.5 The routinization ofpragmatic associations:contextual entrenchment
4.6 Structure from a cognitive point of view
4.7 Summary and outlook
Lecture 5 Sharing Language:Conventionalization
5.1 Interpersonal and social activities revisited
5.2 The basic idea behind conventionalization
5.3 Co-semiosis and co-adaptation
5.4 Usualization and diflusion
5.5 Implicit and explicit normation
5.6 Sociological and sociolingnistic aspects of linguistic conventionalization
5.7 Case study:early diffusion ofneologisms
5.8 Summary and outlook
Lecture 6 Forces Shaping Usage,Entrenchment and Conventionalization
6.1 Activities,processes and forces in a feedback loop system
6.2 Internal VS.external,motivating vs.modulating forces
6.3 Cognitive forces
6.4 Pragmatic forces
6.5 Social forces
6.6 Emotive-affective forces
6.7 Summary and outlook
Lecture 7 The Unified EC-Model
7.1 Putting the components ofthe EC-Model together
7.2 Case study: the N+BE+that pattern (Schmid and Mantlik 2015)
7.3 Stabilizing elements in the interaction among the components of the model
7.4 Flexibilizing elements in the interaction between the components ofthe EC-Model
7.5 Dynamizing elements in the interaction between the components of the EC-Model
7.6 Summary
Lecture 8 Applications,Implications and Conclusions
8.1 Thethingis
8.2 Needlessto sayVS.itgoeswithout saying
8.3 Effects of membership in a specific community in Mandarin Chinese(Chang 2016)
8.4 General implications ofthe three applications for the EC-Model
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