Terttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg

Historical Sociolinguistics

Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in English, laying the foundation for Modern Standard English. This revised edition of Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg's ground-breaking work includes new chapters on language change and the individual, and on newly developed sociolinguistic research methods. Historical Sociolinguistics is essential reading for all students and researchers in this area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138951327
• ISBN-10: 1138951323
• Artikelnr.: 45479355

Autorenporträt

Terttu Nevalainen is Professor of English Philology and Director of the VARIENG Research Unit in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki. Helena Raumolin-Brunberg was formerly a Senior Researcher in the Department of English, University of Helsinki.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
List of figures
List of tables
1. Introduction: issues in historical sociolinguistics
2. Sociolinguistic paradigms and language change
3. Primary data: background and informants
4. Real time
5. Apparent time
6. Gender
7. Social stratification
8. Regional variation
9. Historical patterning of sociolinguistic variation
10. Language change and the individual
11. Language change: transmission and diffusion
12. Conclusion
Appendix I: Methodology: how to count occurrences?
Appendix II: Numerical information
Appendix III: The letter collections
References
Author index
Subject index