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The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

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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

Author Biography:

Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy is Professor inSociolinguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain, where heteaches undergraduate courses on English Sociolinguistics,Dialectology, and the History of English, as well associolinguistic research methods for postgraduate students. Hisbooks include Style-Shifting in Public (with J.A.Cutillas-Espinosa, 2012), Diccionario deSociolinguistica (with P. Trudgill, 2007), Metodologia de la InvestigacionSociolinguistica (with M. Almeida, 2005), and Geolinguistica (1999). Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre is Professor in EnglishHistorical Linguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain, where heteaches on the History of the English Language and Research Methodsin Language Variation and Change. His books includeSociolinguistica Historica (2007), Sociolinguisticsand the History of English (with J.M. Hernandez-Campoy,2005) and Variation and Linguistic Change in English (withJ.M. Hernandez-Campoy, 1999).
Release date NZ
March 30th, 2012
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre
  • Edited by Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy
Pages
704
Dimensions
179x255x39
ISBN-13
9781405190688
Product ID
18345020

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