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Author: Barbara Fennell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-02-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780631200734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.
Author: Barbara Fennell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-02-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780631200734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.
Author: Barbara Fennell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-02-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780631200734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.
Author: Barbara Fennell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-02-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780631200734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.
Author: Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1317882172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a sociolinguistic perspective on the history of the English language. Based on original empirical research, it discusses the social factors that promoted linguistic changes in earlier English, and the people who were the leading force behind them. The authors focus on the major grammatical developments that shaped the language in Tudor and Stuart times, the period that laid the foundations for modern Standard English. Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg adopt an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the extent to which sociolinguistic models and methods can be applied to the history of English.
Author: Mr Dick Leith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-18
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1134711441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation. This new edition has been fully revised. Additions include: * new material about 'New Englishes' across the world * a new chapter entitled 'A Critical Linguistic History of English Texts' * a discussion of problems involved in writing a history of English All terms and concepts are explained as they are introduced, and linguistic examples are chosen for their accessibility and intelligibility to the general reader. It will be of interest to students of Sociolinguistics, English Language, History and Cultural Studies.
Author: Barbara Fennell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-02-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780631200727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.
Author: John H. Fisher
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0813148464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces. In these essays Fisher chronicles his gradual realization that Standard English was not a popular evolution at all but was the direct result of political decisions made by the Lancastrian administrations of Henry IV and Henry V. To achieve standardization and acceptance of the vernacular, these kings turned to their Chancery scribes, who were responsible for writing and copying legal and royal documents. Chaucer, a relative of the king, began to be labeled by the government as a master of the language, and it was Henry V who inspired the fifteenth-century tradition of citing Chaucer as the "maker" of English. An even more important link between language development and government practice is the fact that Chaucer himself composed in the English of the Chancery scribes. Fisher discusses the development of Chancery practices, royal involvement in promoting use of the vernacular, Chaucer's use of English, Caxton's use of Chancery Standard, and the nineteenth-century phenomenon of a standard, or "received," pronunciation of English. This engaging and clearly written work will change the way scholars understand the development of English and think about the intentional shaping of our language.
Author: Nikolas Coupland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1317881451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, including Bakhtin, Foucault, Habermas, Sacks, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. In eleven newly commissioned chapters, leading sociolinguists reappraise the theoretical framing of their research, reaching out beyond conventional limits. The authors propose significant new orientations to key sociolinguistic themes, including- - social motivations for language variation and change - language, power and authority - language and ageing - language, race and class - language planning In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociolinguistic theory and the priorities of sociolinguistic methods. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory encourages students and researchers of sociolinguistics to be more reflexively aware and critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a reasessment of the place sociolinguistics occupies in the social sciences generally.
Author: Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-10
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1315475154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in English, laying the foundation for Modern Standard English. This revised edition of Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg’s ground-breaking work: discusses the grammatical developments that shaped English in the early modern period; presents the sociolinguistic factors affecting linguistic change in Tudor and Stuart English, including gender, social status, and regional variation; showcases the authors’ research into personal letters from the people who were the driving force behind these changes; and demonstrates how historical linguists can make use of social and demographic history to analyse linguistic variation over an extended period of time. With brand new chapters on language change and the individual, and on newly developed sociolinguistic research methods, Historical Sociolinguistics is essential reading for all students and researchers in this area.
