Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

52 Augusto Soares da Silva the 1950s and the 1970s (from 43.78% to 55.17%) and increases by 1.59% only between the 1970s and 200 ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 53 Another interesting question is to know what happens when other types of cal ...

54 Augusto Soares da Silva that the low frequency of OFFSIDE and DRIBBLING, for instance, is due to the low occurrence of these ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 55 What we can safely state now is that BP has clearly undergone more changes t ...

56 Augusto Soares da Silva internal uniformization and standardization is not crucial, because a stan- dardized linguistic situa ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 57 they may, at the same time, or alternatively, suggest a less careful attitud ...

58 Augusto Soares da Silva As an alternative calculation, all the phonetic and graphic variants such as blouse and blusa (blouse ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 59 margin of error). This suggests that there is a real internal distancing pro ...

60 Augusto Soares da Silva ― divergence is found in the vocabulary of clothing and restricted con- vergence is found in the voca ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 61 tion. On the contrary, there is an increase in standard deviation. Similarly ...

62 Augusto Soares da Silva (2) foreign influence (loanwords): to assess the impact of English and French influence on the global ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 63 For instance, a convergent evolution implies an increase in AUNI. It is ne- ...

64 Augusto Soares da Silva 1970s to the terms that were endogenous, exogenous or binational in the 1950s and what happened to th ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 65 EP. Looking at the lower part of Table 7, we can see an increase of A’UNI an ...

66 Augusto Soares da Silva variety changes more than the European variety, especially in the period between the 1950s to the 197 ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 67 As regards the percentage variation of endogenousness and exogenousness in t ...

68 Augusto Soares da Silva tance between the two varieties in the 1950s. As Figure 1 shows, the un- iformity between EP and BP i ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 69 1950s there are many more loanwords and non-adapted forms in BP than in EP, ...

70 Augusto Soares da Silva cant) and also reveals that French influence is not weaker in BP than it is in EP. Tables 10 and 11 p ...

Lexical convergence and divergence in Portuguese 71 As to neologisms, it is of more interest to see their influence on the vo- c ...