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The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
Contributor(s): Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel (Editor), Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo (Editor)
ISBN: 1118798023     ISBN-13: 9781118798027
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $61.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey: 306.440
Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (2.29 lbs) 704 pages
 
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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 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