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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815913803321

Autore

Deumert Ana

Titolo

Language standardization and language change : the dynamics of Cape Dutch / / Ana Deumert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2004

ISBN

1-282-16066-4

9786612160660

90-272-9579-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 361 pages)

Collana

Impact, studies in language and society, , 1385-7908 ; ; 19

Disciplina

439.3/6

Soggetti

Afrikaans language - Standardization

Afrikaans language - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Language Standardization and Language Change; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; History; Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics; Afrikaner nationalism and the discovery of the vernacular; The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence and the social context of language use in the nineteenth century; Variation analysis; On the analysis of variability and uniformity; The gradualness of morphosyntactic change; Morpholexical and syntactic variation; The Cape Dutch variety spectrum

Sommario/riassunto

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community.