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

• Autore: Deumert Ana
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages)
• Disciplina: 439.3/6
• Soggetto topico: Afrikaans language - Standardization; Afrikaans language - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-353) 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Language standardization and language change
• ISBN: 1-282-16066-4; 9786612160660; 90-272-9579-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815913803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Impact, studies in language and society ; ; 19.