Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel
The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
- Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguistics
- Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developments
- Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies
- Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables; historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and attitudes to language
Keywords: language contact, sociolinguistic theory, dialectology, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, history of English, language development, sociology of language, linguistic anthropology, heritage language, language and culture, language and interaction, language contact and change, language variation and change, English sociolinguistics, historical dialectology
- Editor
- Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel
- Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
- Page amount
- 704 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118257265
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118257258