Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics

• 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
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...