The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
Author: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 140519068X

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

American Journal of Philology

American Journal of Philology
Author: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1888
Genre: Classical philology
ISBN:

Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."

Conflict in Medieval Europe

Conflict in Medieval Europe
Author: Warren C. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351949721

Conflict is defined here broadly and inclusively as an element of social life and social relations. Its study encompasses the law, not just disputes concerning property, but wider issues of criminality, coercion and violence, status, sex, sexuality and gender, as well as the phases and manifestations of conflict and the behaviors brought to bear on it. It engages, too, with the nature of the transformation spanning the Carolingian period, and its implications for the meanings of power, violence, and peace. Conflict in Medieval Europe represents the 'American school' of the study of medieval conflict and social order. Framed by two substantial historiographical and conceptual surveys of the field, it brings together two generations of scholars: the pioneers, who continue to expand the research agenda; and younger colleagues, who represent the best emerging work on this subject. The book therefore both marks the trajectory of conflict studies in the United States and presents a set of original, highly individual contributions across a shifting conceptual range, indicative of a major transition in the field.