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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 | : Len W. Lanham |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 1979-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3872762109 |
This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic and social variables, and in attitudes to different varieties of speech within the community. This premise is pursued here in its historical implications: linguistuic evidence in present-day speech patterns of earlier states of the society and of the social, political and cultural changes that have brought about the present state. The second main focus in this volume is directed at the concept of standard variety, that is the social attributes and functions of a formal speech pattern for which the status of standard might be claimed.
| 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 |
poetics of belonging in the region. --Book Jacket.
| 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 | : Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz |
| Publisher | : Hampton Press (NJ) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Sociolinguistics |
| ISBN | : 9781572738256 |
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests are in language and social interaction, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, semiotics, communication theory, childhood socialization, and history of the discipline. Her major publications include the books Communication in Everyday Life (Ablex), Semiotics and Communication, and Wedding as Text (Erlbaum), and the edited collections Social Approaches to Communication (Guilford), From Generation to Generation and Socially Constructing Communication (Hampton). --Book Jacket.
| 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.
