Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics

Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics

The volume collects original studies highlighting contemporary trends in historical sociolinguistics, as well as current research on the relationship between sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, social motivations of language variation and change, and corpus-based studies. Distinctive featur...

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Main Author: Russi, Cinzia (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2016
Subjects:
standardisation
history of English
diaglossia
discourse analysis
orthography
historical sociolinguistics
language ideologies
dialect death
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Summary:The volume collects original studies highlighting contemporary trends in historical sociolinguistics, as well as current research on the relationship between sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, social motivations of language variation and change, and corpus-based studies. Distinctive features of the book, which make it appealing to a wider audience, are the interdisciplinary nature of the chapters and the range of languages addressed.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (280 p.)
ISBN:9783110488401
9783110488449
DOI:10.1515/9783110488401
Access:Open Access

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