Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics
Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics

Author: Whitney Chappell

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 902725995X

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This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and historical factors, the book’s eight chapters investigate phenomena ranging from forms of address and personal(ized) infinitives to clitics and sibilant systems, extending from Majorca to Mexico, from Panamanian Congo speech to Afro-Andean vernaculars. The volume is particularly recommended for scholars interested in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, history, sociology, and anthropology in the Spanish-speaking world. Additionally, it will serve as an indispensable guide to students, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, investigating sociohistorical advances in Spanish.

Historical Sociolinguistics
Historical Sociolinguistics

Author: Terttu Nevalainen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1315475154

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Historical 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.

The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

Author: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-02-15

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 111825726X

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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

Millennia of Language Change
Millennia of Language Change

Author: Peter Trudgill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1108477399

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This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia
Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-10

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9004350519

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Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia blends insights from sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics and historical-comparative linguistics to shed new light on regional Tibeto-Burman language varieties and their relationships across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. The approach is inspired by leading Tibeto-Burmanist, David Bradley, to whom the book is dedicated. The volume includes twelve original research essays written by eleven Tibeto-Burmanists drawing on first-hand field research in five countries to explore Tibeto-Burman languages descended from seven internal sub-branches. Following two introductory chapters, each contribution is focused on a specific Tibeto-Burman language or sub-branch, collectively contributing to the literature on language identification, language documentation, typological analysis, historical-comparative classification, linguistic theory, and language endangerment research with new analyses, state-of-the-art summaries and contemporary applications.

Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek
Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek

Author: Andrea Massimo Cuomo

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782503577135

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How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question that the papers collected in this volume aim to address. The term historical sociolinguistics (HSL), a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, suggests that a language cannot be studied without its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of the communication which takes place between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts. These are seen as sets of shared signs used by authors to communicate to their audiences. This volume is divided into two distinct parts. In the first, Cuomo's and Bentein's papers aim to offer an overview on the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente's, Bianconi's, and Perez-Martin's papers will then show how to study the context of production and reception of Byzantine texts. These are followed by Horrocks' study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of the texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively.

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Author: Emanuel J. Drechsel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1107015103

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This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.

Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation
Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation

Author: Sali A. Tagliamonte

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-11

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1139451324

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The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the actual tools and methods have been largely passed on through 'word of mouth', rather than being formally documented. This is the first comprehensive 'how to' guide to the formal analysis of sociolinguistic variation. It shows step-by-step how the analysis is carried out, leading the reader through every stage of a research project from start to finish. Topics covered include fieldwork, data organization and management, analysis and interpretation, presenting research results, and writing up a paper. Practical and informal, the book contains all the information needed to conduct a fully-fledged sociolinguistic investigation, and includes exercises, checklists, references and insider tips. It is set to become an essential resource for students, researchers and fieldworkers embarking on research projects in sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistic Typology
Sociolinguistic Typology

Author: Peter Trudgill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-10-20

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0199604347

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This book considers how far social factors explain why human societies produce different kinds of language at different times and places and why some languages and dialects get simpler while others get more complex. It does so in the context of a wide range of languages and societies.

Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics

Author: Richard A. Hudson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-06-13

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521565141

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New edition of widely-acclaimed textbook, including new sections on up-to-date topics for the 1990s.