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Linguistic Entrenchment and Divergent Conceptualization in Online Discursive Communities

Sharma, Raghav
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1658098467262559

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2022, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Linguistics.
Given the role of distributional semantics in child language acquisition, adult linguistic development, and the conceptualization of abstract entities, the present investigation seeks to explore if the variable frequency of linguistic utterances across clusters of users in a social network can be correlated with divergent interpretations of an ostensibly shared concept within a discursive community. Are differing rates of linguistic entrenchment within a community a marker of divergent conceptualization? To begin to address this question, this present pilot study details the socio-cognitive processes underlying entrenchment of language and concepts, and develops a method for studying divergent conceptualization in the online social media network Twitter.
Vera Tobin (Committee Chair)
Todd Oakley (Committee Member)
Mark Turner (Committee Member)
Linguistics; Multimedia Communications; Social Psychology
conceptual blending; frame semantics; cultural models; entrenchment; illusions of knowledge; cognitive linguistics; corpus linguistics; discourse; Twitter

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  • Sharma, R. (2022). Linguistic Entrenchment and Divergent Conceptualization in Online Discursive Communities [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1658098467262559

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sharma, Raghav. Linguistic Entrenchment and Divergent Conceptualization in Online Discursive Communities. 2022. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1658098467262559.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sharma, Raghav. "Linguistic Entrenchment and Divergent Conceptualization in Online Discursive Communities." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1658098467262559

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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