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1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1 Internally motivated change 1 -- 1.2 Locating internally motivated change 4 -- 1.3 Case study: symmetry and function in the Great Vowel Shift 5 -- 1.4 Drift 8 -- 1.5 Case study: word order change in Icelandic 10 -- 1.6 Case study: grammaticalisation in Urdu 15 -- 1.7 Native-speaker creativity 18 -- 1.8 Case study: lexical derivation in Haitian French Creole 22 -- 2 Externally motivated change 29 -- 2.2 Borrowing 30 -- 2.3 Convergence 40 -- 2.4 Case study: the Balkans 41 -- 2.5 Case study: Kupwar 45 -- 2.6 Code-switching 48 -- 2.7 Mixed languages 50 -- 2.8 Discussion: internal and external change revisited 51 -- 2.9 Case study: Guernsey Norman French (Guernesiais) 52 -- 2.10 Case study: Middle English 53 -- 3 Language birth 55 -- 3.2 Case study: Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Germanic and (Old) English 57 -- 3.3 Case study: Tok Pisin 64 -- 3.4 Case study: Scots 69 -- 3.5 Discussion: what makes a new language? 74 -- 4 Language death 78 -- 4.2 Setting and structure: the two aspects of obsolescence 81 -- 4.3 Case study: East Sutherland Gaelic 92 -- 4.4 Case study: Pennsylvania German 97 -- 4.5 Dialect death 100 -- 4.6 Case study: French 100 -- 4.7 Case study: Welsh 101 -- 5 Language planning and revitalisation 105 -- 5.2 Strategies and aims of language planning 106 -- 5.3 Case study: language policy in the USA 110 -- 5.4 Case study: language planning in Jersey 116 -- 5.5 Case study: language planning in the Seychelles 124 -- 6 Language revival 133 -- 6.2 Case study: Cornish 135 -- 7 Language invention 153 -- 7.2 Inventing language 154 -- 7.3 Case study: Esperanto 163 -- 7.4 Case study: Laadan 169 |
| Summary |
"This book explores the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and its possible motivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes." "Using wide-ranging case studies presenting new or little-known data, Jones and Singh draw a distinction between 'unconscious' and 'deliberate' change. The discussion of 'unconscious' change considers phenomena such as the emergence and obsolescence of individual languages, while the book also includes detailed discussion of 'deliberate' change, traditionally marginalised in favour of explorations of the 'unconscious' variety. The sections on 'deliberate' change focus on issues of language planning, including the strategies of language revival and revitalisation movements, and also include a detailed exploration of what is arguably the most extreme instance of 'deliberate' change: language invention for real-world use." "As a student-friendly text which covers a wide variety of language situations, it also makes a clear, but often ignored, distinction between concepts such as language policy and planning, and language revival and revitalisation. The innovative case studies which permeate the text demonstrate that real-life language use is often much more complex than theoretical abstractions might suggest." "This book will be extremely useful to students on a variety of courses including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and language policy and planning."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and indexes |
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Includes Web resources |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Linguistic change.
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Language obsolescence.
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Language planning.
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Language revival.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Language obsolescence
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Language planning
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Language revival
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Linguistic change
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Sprachpolitik
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Sprachpflege
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Sprachwandel
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Sprachtod
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Sprachentwicklung
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Taalverandering.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Singh, Ishtla
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| ISBN |
9781136522338 |
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1136522336 |
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1299866301 |
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9781299866300 |
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9781315017006 |
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1315017008 |
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9781136522475 |
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1136522476 |
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9781136522406 |
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1136522409 |
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