Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics -- Part one: Lexical and lexical-semantic variation -- Heterodox concept features and onomasiological heterogeneity in dialects -- Measuring and parameterizing lexical convergence and divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese -- Awesome insights into semantic variation -- Applying word space models to sociolinguistics. Religion names before and after 9/11 -- Part two: Constructional variation -- The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective -- (Not) acquiring grammatical gender in two varieties of Dutch -- Lectal variation in constructional semantics: "Benefactive" ditransitives in Dutch -- Part three: Variation of lectal awareness and attitudes -- Lectal acquisition and linguistic stereotype formation -- Investigations into the folk's mental models of linguistic varieties -- A cognitive approach to quantitative sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from th-fronting in Central Scotland -- Backmatter