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Author : John R. Rickford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Social Contact and Linguistic Diffusion written by John R. Rickford and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Leon Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Language Spread written by Robert Leon Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bettina Migge
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 396110347X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Social and structural aspects of language contact and change written by Bettina Migge and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others investigate the specific processes of contact-induced change that were involved in the emergence and development of these languages. A third set of papers look at how new datasets and greater sensitivity to social issues can help to (re)assess persistent theoretical and empirical questions as well as help to open up new avenues of research. In particular they highlight the heterogeneity of contemporary language practices and attitudes often obscured in sociolinguistic research. The contributions all focus on language variation and change but investigate it from a variety of disciplinary and empirical perspectives and cover a range of linguistic contexts.
Author : Erica A Cartmill
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981440151X
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 9th International Conference (Evolang9) written by Erica A Cartmill and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of Evolang IX, the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language.The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The proceedings are an important resource for researchers in the field.
Author : Jonathan Marshall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504132
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Language Change and Sociolinguistics written by Jonathan Marshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sociolinguistic study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the diffusion of language change within a community. Advanced statistical analysis methods are used in rigorously testing the supposed norm-enforcement effect of social networks. Revisions to the social network model are proposed, allowing the effects of various social factors operating simultaneously on the individual to be considered in evaluating the process of resistance to language change.
Author : Gregory R. Guy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276293
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Towards a Social Science of Language written by Gregory R. Guy and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-08-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic dynamics of variation and change (II). The study of African American English, and other language varieties in the Americas spoken by people of African descent and influenced by their linguistic heritage, is the subject of the papers in section III of the first volume. The third theme is the study of discourse; the papers in section I of the second volume develop themes in Labovian linguistics that go back to Labov's work on narrative, descriptive, and therapeutic discourse. Fourth is the emphasis on language use, the search for discursive, interactive, and meaningful determinants of the complexity in human communication. Papers with these themes appear in section II of the second volume.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119485061
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Language Contact written by Raymond Hickey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thirty-seven specially-commissioned chapters cover a broad range of topics and case studies of contact from around the world. Now in its second edition, this valuable reference has been extensively updated with new chapters on topics including globalization, language acquisition, creolization, code-switching, and genetic classification. Fresh case studies examine Romance, Indo-European, African, Mayan, and many other languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of language contact studies, this volume: Includes a representative sample of individual studies which re-evaluate the role of language contact in the broader context of language and society Offers 23 new chapters written by leading scholars Examines language contact in different societies, including many in Africa and Asia Provides a cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and students involved in language contact, language variation and change, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language theory.
Author : Donald Winford
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631212508
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Contact Linguistics written by Donald Winford and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2003-01-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of contact linguistics. Examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. Offers an account of current approaches to all of the major types of contact-induced change. Discusses the general processes and principles that are at work in cases of contact.
Author : Evangelos A. Afendras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Some Formal Models for the Sociology of Language written by Evangelos A. Afendras and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140519068X
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics written by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : David Britain
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296472
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Social Dialectology written by David Britain and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers. Together the authors provide new perspectives on both the traditional areas of sociolinguistic variation and change and the newer fields of dialect formation, dialect diffusion and dialect levelling. They provide a snapshot of some of the burning issues currently preoccupying researchers in the field and give signposts to the future direction of the discipline.
Author : Evangelia Adamou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000903249
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Understanding Language Contact written by Evangelia Adamou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and multilingualism. Covering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across different interactional networks and timeframes, and the historical outcomes of contact-induced language change, this book: Discusses both how these areas relate to one another and how they correspond to different theoretical fields and methodologies; Draws together concepts and methodological/theoretical advances from the related fields of bilingualism and sociolinguistics to show how these can shed new light on the traditional field of contact linguistics; Presents up-to-date research in a digestible form; Includes examples from a wide range of contact languages, including Creoles and pidgins; Indigenous, minority, and heritage languages; mixed languages; and immigrants' linguistic practices, to illustrate ideas and concepts; Features exercises to test students’ understanding as well as suggestions for further reading to expand knowledge in specific areas. Written by three experienced teachers and researchers in this area, Understanding Language Contact is key reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching bilingualism and language contact for the first time.
Author : Éva Ágnes Csató
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415308045
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion written by Éva Ágnes Csató and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume in the field of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic contact linguistics, is the first of its kind, providing a summary of the present results of this dynamic field of research.
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500937
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Author : Gregory R. Guy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027236305
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Towards a Social Science of Language written by Gregory R. Guy and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic dynamics of variation and change (II). The study of African American English, and other language varieties in the Americas spoken by people of African descent and influenced by their linguistic heritage, is the subject of the papers in section III of the first volume. The third theme is the study of discourse; the papers in section I of the second volume develop themes in Labovian linguistics that go back to Labov's work on narrative, descriptive, and therapeutic discourse. Fourth is the emphasis on language use, the search for discursive, interactive, and meaningful determinants of the complexity in human communication. Papers with these themes appear in section II of the second volume.
Author : M. Amira
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346838536
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Significance of Social Factors in Language Change written by M. Amira and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Trinity College Dublin (Centre for Language and Communication Studies), course: Sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: While perspectives towards the phenomenon of language change are various and partly contradictory, they all coincide in the overall question of why and how language change takes place. In order to address this question, it is important to first, position the phenomenon of language change within the two major perspectives in linguistics, that is the distinction between linguistic change as diachronic or synchronic variation. Next, different models and theories that try to explain the origin of change and its underlying mechanism such as the family tree or wave model can be consulted in order to gain an insight into the complexity and interrelatedness of the different approaches. Especially the notion of internally and externally motivated change is here of special importance. In addition, these models prove to be foundational for the further discourse on how language change spreads and under which influences. Keeping this in mind, a closer look at the synchronic perspective of sociolinguistics provides relevant knowledge about the role of social factors in causing linguistic change which finally enables a testing of this perspective on the basis of the case examples of linguistic change in "Martha’s Vineyard" (Blake & Josey, 2003) and "Ucieda" (Holmquist, 1985). In essence, this essay will examine the relationship between diachronic and synchronic approaches towards language change and demonstrate the significance of social factors on the basis of different theories and examples.
Author : Gregory R. Guy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Towards a Social Science of Language: Variation and change in language and society written by Gregory R. Guy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
