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The Social History of Language
Author | : Peter Burke,Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1987-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521317630 |
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This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.
Language and Social History
Author | : Rajend Mesthrie |
Publsiher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sociolinguistics |
ISBN | : 0864862806 |
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A Social History of English
Author | : Mr Dick Leith,Dick Leith |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005-08-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781134711444 |
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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.
The Standard in South African English and Its Social History
Author | : Len W. Lanham |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783872762108 |
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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.
History and Language in the Andes
Author | : P. Heggarty,A. Pearce |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2011-11-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780230370579 |
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The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate demise.
Swearing
Author | : Geoffrey Hughes |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1998-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780141954325 |
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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.
Social History
Author | : Miles Fairburn |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 1999-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781349275175 |
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Drawing examples from some of the classic works in the discipline, Miles Fairburn examines the nature, varieties, schools and evolution of social history. Intended for advanced students and practising social historians who see social history as a problem-solving discipline, the methodological problems examined include the absence of social categories, fragmenting evidence, the appraisal of rival explanations, the use of socially constructed evidence to substantiate claims about realities, how to avoid presentism and when its practice is justifiable, how to distinguish important causes and how to tell similarities from differences.
Sociolinguistics and Language History
Author | : Terttu Nevalainen,Helena Raumolin-Brunberg |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 905183974X |
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What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers. The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds. The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time. This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians.