Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics

Russi, Cinzia

Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics - De Gruyter 2016 - 1 electronic resource (280 p.)

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The volume collects original studies highlighting contemporary trends in historical sociolinguistics, as well as current research on the relationship between sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, social motivations of language variation and change, and corpus-based studies. Distinctive features of the book, which make it appealing to a wider audience, are the interdisciplinary nature of the chapters and the range of languages addressed.


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English

9783110488401 9783110488401 9783110488449

10.1515/9783110488401 doi

standardisation history of English diaglossia discourse analysis orthography historical sociolinguistics language ideologies dialect death