The cognitive linguistic foundations of the socio-cultural factors in style

Abstract

The paper discusses the complexity of linguistic style in the cognitive linguistic framework. The complexity of style is approached in three complex domains: the stylistic potential of language, the socio-cultural factors and the stylistic structure. The socio-cultural factors are maintained by the community and its culture, attributing cultural meaning to linguistic formation types, but they do not come directly from the inherent features of the language system. The paper gives a theoretical approach to socio-cultural factors in style compared to the stylistic potential, in relation with the emergent nature of society (community in general) and culture, within the dynamic linguistic interaction with the joint attentional and referential scenes, with the self-creative and self-reflexive nature of the interlocutors and their social relations. The characteristic variability of Hungarian cultural groups and language varieties are also treated, from the perspective of stylistic socio-cultural factors. The last section deals with the main functions of the stylistic socio cultural factors, pointing to the subjectified character of linguistic formation