The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics #92)
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- Synopsis
- 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
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 704 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118257258
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781118257227, 9781118257234, 9781118798027, 9781405190688
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Date of Addition:
- 11/13/19
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Language Arts, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
- Edited by:
- Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre
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