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Author | : Peter Burke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1987-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521317634 |
This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.
Author | : Rajend Mesthrie |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sociolinguistics |
ISBN | : 9780864862808 |
Author | : Mr Dick Leith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005-08-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134711441 |
A 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 | : Terttu Nevalainen |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789051839821 |
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.
Author | : Steven Roger Fischer |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004-10-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1861895941 |
It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form. He considers the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon and slang, as well as the effects radio and television, propaganda, advertising and the media are having on language today. Looking to the future, he shows how electronic media will continue to reshape and re-invent the ways in which we communicate. "[a] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book ... a virtuoso tour of the linguistic world."—The Economist "... few who read this remarkable study will regard language in quite the same way again."—The Good Book Guide
Author | : Farina Mir |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520262697 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Hughes |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1998-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0141954329 |
Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary developments, such as the growth of Political Correctness.
Author | : Terttu Nevalainen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-11-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1315475154 |
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.
Author | : Joey Lee Dillard |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110105841 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author | : Asif Agha |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521576857 |
Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.