The handbook of historical sociolinguistics / / edited by Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (706 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4409
• Soggetto topico: Sociolinguistics - History; Sociolinguistics
• Classificazione: ES 100; ES 400
• Altri autori: Hernández CampoyJuan Manuel Conde SilvestreJuan Camilo
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Maps; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Origins and Theoretical Assumptions; 1: Diachrony vs Synchrony: the Complementary Evolution of Two (Ir)reconcilable Dimensions; 2: Historical Sociolinguistics: Origins, Motivations, and Paradigms; 3: Social History and the Sociology of Language; Part II: Methods for the Sociolinguistic Study of the History of Languages ; 4: The Application of the Quantitative Paradigm to Historical Sociolinguistics: Problems with the Generalizability Principle5: The Uniformitarian Principle and the Risk of Anachronisms in Language and Social History; 6: The Use of Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Linguistic Variation and Change: Types and Computational Applications; 7: Editing the Medieval Manuscript in its Social Context; 8: Medical, Official, and Monastic Documents in Sociolinguistic Research; 9: The Use of Private Letters and Diaries in Sociolinguistic Investigation ; 10: The Use of Literary Sources in Historical Sociolinguistic Research11: Early Advertising and Newspapers as Sources of Sociolinguistic Investigation; Part III: Linguistic and Socio-demographic Variables; 12: Orthographic Variables; 13: Phonological Variables; 14: Grammatical Variables; 15: Lexical-Semantic Variables; 16: Pragmatic Variables; 17: Class, Age, and Gender-based Patterns; 18: The Role of Social Networks and Mobility in Diachronic Sociolinguistics; 19: Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Castes; Part IV: Historical Dialectology, Language Contact, Change, and Diffusion ; 20: The Teleology of Change: Functional and Non-Functional Explanations for Language Variation and Change21: Internally- and Externally-Motivated Language Change; 22: Lexical Diffusion and the Regular Transmission of Language Change in its Sociohistorical Context; 23: The Timing of Language Change; 24: Innovation Diffusion in Sociohistorical Linguistics; 25: Historical Dialectology: Space as a Variable in the Reconstruction of Regional Dialects; 26: Linguistic Atlases: Empirical Evidence for Dialect Change in the History of Languages ; 27: Historical Sociolinguistic Reconstruction Beyond Europe: Case Studies from South Asia and Fiji28: Multilingualism, Code-switching, and Language Contact in Historical Sociolinguistics; 29: The Impact of Migratory Movements on Linguistic Systems: Transplanted Speech Communities and Varieties from a Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective; 30: Convergence and Divergence in World Languages; Part V: Attitudes to Language; 31: Sociolinguistics and Ideologies in Language History; 32: Language Myths; 33: Linguistic Purism; 34: The Reconstruction of Prestige Patterns in Language History ; 35: Written Vernaculars in Medieval and Renaissance Times
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 sociolinguisticsExamines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developmentsBridges t
• Titolo autorizzato: The handbook of historical sociolinguistics
• ISBN: 1-118-25723-5; 1-78268-531-6; 1-283-45397-5; 9786613453976; 1-118-25724-3; 1-118-25722-7; 1-118-25725-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141320703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics