Socio-Historical Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Socio-Historical Linguistics write by Suzanne Romaine. This book was released on 2009-06-04. Socio-Historical Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Synchronic sociolinguistics has been particularly convincing in its use of quantitative models to demonstrates how 'the present might explain the past'. However, the relevance of sociolinguistics to historical linguistics 'using the past to explain the present', has been largely ignored. In this volume Dr Romaine lays the foundation for a field of research encompassing both historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, which aims to investigate and account for language variation within a particular speech community over time. The socio-historical approach is illustrated here by a detailed analysis of the development of relative clause formation strategies in Middle Scots. This case study raises fundamental questions about the epistemological status of sociolinguistic theory and in particular its claims to an empirical foundation. Her own preliminary suggestions for a truly integrative sociolinguistic theory will be of interest to sociolinguists, historical linguists and general linguists.
The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics write by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy. This book was released on 2012-02-15. The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Sociolinguistics and Language History
Sociolinguistics and Language History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociolinguistics and Language History write by Terttu Nevalainen. This book was released on 1996. Sociolinguistics and Language History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers. The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds. The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time. This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians.
Methodology of Socio-historical Linguistics
Methodology of Socio-historical Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Methodology of Socio-historical Linguistics write by D. D. Mahulkar. This book was released on 1996. Methodology of Socio-historical Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific write by Emanuel J. Drechsel. This book was released on 2014-03-27. Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
