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DESCRIPTION:Linguistic research often seeks patterns that generalize acro
 ss speakers and communities. But what can we learn when we take the indi
 vidual speaker as our primary unit of analysis? The VolkswagenStiftung p
 roject Idiolinguistics addresses this question by shifting attention fro
 m aggregate language systems to individual linguistic behaviour and by c
 ombining intensive longitudinal language data with experimental measures
  of linguistic representation.\nAt the centre of the project is the Corp
 us of Situational Individual Variation (CorSIV)\, which follows ten spea
 kers over 2.5 years. At repeated sampling points\, the project collects 
 digital communication\, conversational recordings\, sociolinguistic inte
 rviews\, information about media consumption\, auto-ethnographic writing
 \, and experimental data. This creates the possibility of connecting wha
 t people encounter and produce in their everyday linguistic lives with h
 ow language is represented and processed cognitively.\nTo illustrate wha
 t such an approach can look like in practice\, I will draw on my PhD pro
 ject on affect and lexical entrenchment. The project asks whether the af
 fective properties of words\, particularly valence and arousal\, contrib
 ute to lexical entrenchment beyond frequency of exposure. It combines a 
 population-level corpus study using COCA and normative affect ratings wi
 th an individual-level study linking CorSIV exposure data\, individual a
 ffective ratings\, and experimental measures of lexical entrenchment.\nM
 ore broadly\, the talk aims to show how corpus linguistics\, psycholingu
 istics\, cognitive linguistics\, and longitudinal research can be brough
 t together to investigate language at the level of the individual.
URL:https://talks.stuts.de/de/stuts80/public/events/1608
SUMMARY:Idiolinguistics in Action: Exploring Affect and Entrenchment at t
 he Individual Level
ORGANIZER:stuts80
LOCATION:stuts80 - S 57 
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