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1 online resource (xxx, 674 pages) : illustrations |
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Blackwell handbooks in linguistics |
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Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
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| Contents |
Preface / Teresa Fanego -- Introduction / J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre & Juan M. Hernández-Campoy -- Part I. Origins and Theoretical Assumptions: 1. Diachrony vs synchrony: the complementary evolution of two (ir)reconcilable dimensions / Jean Aitchson; 2. Historical sociolinguistics: origins, motivations, and paradigms / Teritu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg; 3. Social history and the sociology of language / Robert McColl Millar -- Part II. Methods for the Sociolinguistic Study of the History of Languages: 4. The application of the quantitative paradigm to historical sociolinguistics: problems with the generalizability principle / Jean M. Hernández-Campoy and Natalie Schilling; 5. The uniformitarian principle and the risk of anachronisms in language and social history / Alexander Bergs; 6. The use of linguistic corpora for the study of linguistic variation and change: types and computational applications / Pascal Cantos; 7. Editing the Medieval manuscript in its social context / Nila Vázquez and Teresa Marqués-Aguado; 8. Medical, official, and monastic documents in sociolinguistic research / Laura Esteban-Segura; 9. The use of private letters and diaries in sociolinguistic investigation / Stephan Elpass; 10. The use of literary sources in historical sociolinguistic research / K. Anpa; 11. Early advertising and newspapers as sources of sociolinguistic investigation / Carol Percy -- Part III. Linguistic and Socio-demographic Variables: 12. Orthographic variables / Hanna Rutkowska and Paul Rössler; 13. Phonological variables / Anna Hebda; 14. Grammatical variables / Anta Auer and Ania Voeste; 15. Lexical-semantic variables / Joachim Grzega; 16. Pragmatic variables / Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen; 17. Class, age, and gender-based patterns / Agneszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak; 18. The role of social etworks and mobility in diachronic sociolinguistics / Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre; 19. Race, ethnicity, religion, and castes / Rajend Mesthrie -- Part IV. Historical Dialectology, Language Contact, Change, and Diffusion: 20. The releology of change: functional and non-functional explanations for language variation and change / Paul T. Roberge; 21. Internally- and externally-motivated language change / Raymone Hickey; 22. Lexical diffusion and the regular transmission of language change in its sociohistorical context / Brian D. Josepe; 23. The timing of language change / Mieko Ogura; 24. Innovation diffusion in sociohistorical linguistics / David Britain; 25. Historical dialectology: space as a variable in the reconstruction of regional dialects / Anneli Meurman-Solin; 26. Linguistic atlases: empirical evidence for dialect change in the history of languages / Roland Kehrein; 27. Historical sociolinguistic reconstruction beyond Europe: case studies from South Asia and Fiji / Matthew Toulmin; 28. Multilingualism, code-switching, and language contact in historical cociolinguistics / Herbert Schendl; 29. The impact of migratory movements on linguistic systems: transplanted speech communities and varieties from a historical sociolinguistic perspective / Daniel Schreier; 30. Convergence and divergence in world languages / Roger Wright -- Part V. Attitudes to Language: 31: Sociolinguistics and ideologies in language history / James Milroy; 32. Language myths / Richard J. Watts; 33. Linguistic purism / Nils Langer and Agnete Nesse; 34. The reconstruction of prestige patterns in language history / Anni Sario and Minna Palander-Collin; 35: Written vernaculars in Medieval and Renaissance times / Catharina Peersman |
| Summary |
Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field.@* Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguistics@* Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developments@* Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies@* Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables; historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and attitudes to language |
| Notes |
Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguisticsExamines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developmentsBridges the gap between t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- History
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Sociolinguistics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics
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Historische Soziolinguistik
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Diachronische sociolinguïstiek.
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Taalverandering.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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History
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Handboeken (vorm)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hernández Campoy, Juan Manuel.
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Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo.
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| ISBN |
9781118257258 |
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1118257251 |
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9781118257234 |
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1118257235 |
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9781118257227 |
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1118257227 |
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