English in its social contexts : essays in historical sociolinguistics / edited by Tim William Machan and Charles T. Scott

• Pubblicazione: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 268 p. ; 25 cm
• Soggetto topico: Lingua inglese - Grammatica storica; Sociolinguistica; Lingua inglese - Aspetti sociali
• Altri autori: Machan, Tim William Scott, Charles T.
• Nota di bibliografia: Contiene riferimenti bibliografici ed indice
• Nota di contenuto: Sociolinguistics, language change, and the history of English / Charles T. Scott and Tim William Machan -- The social and political contexts of language change in Anglo-Saxon England / Thomas E. Toon -- The use of English: language contact, dialect variation, and written standardisation during the Middle English period / Jeremy J. Smith -- "O! When degree is shak'd": sixteenth-century anticipations of some modern attitudes toward usage / Joseph M. Williams -- Style and standardization in England: 1700-1900 / Edward Finegan -- The Mayflower to the Model-T: the development of American English / Craig M. Carver -- Sociolinguistic attitudes and issues in contemporary Britain / John Algeo -- A polyphony of voices: the dialectics of linguistic diversity and unity in the twentieth-century United States / Judith Rodby -- Social contexts in the history of Australian English / John Gunn -- The second diaspora of English / Braj B. Kachru -- English: from village to global village / Suzanne Romaine
• ISBN: 0195064992 (alk. paper); 019506500X (alk. paper)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 991001576249707536
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento
• Serie: Oxford studies in sociolinguistics