English historical sociolinguistics /
Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts have been made to extrapolate backwards and interpret pa...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Towards a sociolinguistic history of the English language; 1 Sociolinguistics: an overview; 2 Language change and sociolinguistic processes in the past; 3 Standardisation; 4 Codification and ideology; 5 Contact and shift as agents of change; 6 Linguistic contact and new dialect formation; 7 Some final thoughts; References; Index