Advancing Socio Grammatical Variation And Change

Author : Karen V. Beaman,Isabelle Buchstaller,Susan Fox,James A. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000092707

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Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change by Karen V. Beaman,Isabelle Buchstaller,Susan Fox,James A. Walker Pdf

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshire’s influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatical variation and builds upon her contributions with new lines of inquiry pushing sociolinguistic research forward. Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, the volume is structured in six parts with a particular focus on syntactic, morpho-syntactic, and discourse-pragmatic variation and change, each section turning a lens on a different aspect of socio-grammatical variation. The first sections of the volume focus on the role of structure, its relevance for sociolinguistic production and perception and the impact of social structure on formal structure. Two sections look at the interface of variationist research with other aspects of linguistic research, including generative syntax and discourse-pragmatic features. The final sections consider the importance of integrating broader external factors in socio-grammatical variation, exploring the impact of interactional pressures in the sociolinguistic environment and the role of multi-ethnic contact varieties. Taken together, this volume demonstrates the critical role of socio-grammatical variation in our understanding of language change as a holistic process.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367244799

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Socio-Grammatical Variation and Change by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Karen V. Beaman,Isabelle Buchstaller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429638527

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Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan by Karen V. Beaman,Isabelle Buchstaller Pdf

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of maturation and lifespan-specific effects on linguistic malleability in the post-adolescent speaker. Building on the work of Wagner and Buchstaller (2018), the present collection offers a critical examination of the theoretical implications of panel research across a range of geographic regions and time periods. The volume seeks to offer a way forward in the debates circling about the phenomenon of later-life language change, drawing on contributions from a variety of linguistic disciplines to examine critical topics such as the effect of linguistic architecture, the roles of mobility and identity construction, and the impact of frequency effects. Taken together, this edited collection both informs and pushes forward key questions on the nature of lifespan change, making this key reading for students and researchers in cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, and variationist sociolinguistics.

Author : Elizabeth Peterson,Turo Hiltunen,Joseph Kern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108836203

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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change by Elizabeth Peterson,Turo Hiltunen,Joseph Kern Pdf

The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.

Author : Heiko Wiggers,Tina Boyer
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798881900311

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Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature by Heiko Wiggers,Tina Boyer Pdf

'Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature' offers new, compelling, and thought-provoking contributions to the field of Germanic Linguistics. Nine authors from three different continents (North America, Europe, and South America) present in this edited volume their latest research on such diverse topics as Old High German, Old Saxon and Early New High German poetry, Yiddish, German Heritage speakers in the U.S., Germanic language periodization, paleography, and gender issues in Modern Standard German. 'Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature' strives to rekindle dialogue and discourse about topics in Germanic Linguistics while at the same time providing innovative and interesting talking points to the discipline in an international, trans-Atlantic framework. The articles featured in this volume will appeal to students and instructors of Germanic Linguistics alike as well as to anyone interested in this subject.

Author : Karen V. Beaman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003853244

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Language Change in Real- and Apparent-Time by Karen V. Beaman Pdf

This book makes the case for the value of a combined panel and trend study approach in studying real- and apparent-time language change to reconcile conspicuous disparities between the individual and the community. Through an examination of the Swabian dialect in southwestern Germany in two speech communities over four decades, this volume resolves critical methodological challenges in investigating lifespan and community change. This work affirms the importance of the speech community in shaping change and demonstrating how speakers’ notions of local identity and community belonging inform their choice of linguistic variants. Drawing on a comprehensive, integrated methodology, this research brings together diverse approaches for measuring changing social constructs and analyzing linguistic structures using state-of-the-art statistical methods bolstered by participant-observer and ethnographic observations. Beaman explores indexicalities of identity, accommodation, and geographic mobility to investigate how predictable sociolinguistic patterns promote variation and influence language change. Empirically, this volume documents processes of dialect leveling and supraregionalization and the emergence of a “Swabian Renaissance” among younger, well-educated urban speakers who leverage the social indexical status of certain linguistic variables to convey social meanings of local prestige and community belonging. Methodologically, this book offers best practices from a combined panel and trend study, demonstrating the compatibility and complementarity of real- and apparent-time analyses in uncovering the nature, rate, and dispersion of linguistic change. Theoretically, this work links intraspeaker lifespan change and interspeaker community change into a holistic approach, pushing forward our understanding of the role that “orderly heterogeneity” plays in language variation and change. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, dialectology, and historical linguistics.

Author : Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Jason Grafmiller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108865395

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Comparative Variation Analysis by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Jason Grafmiller Pdf

Taking an interdisciplinary stance, this pioneering book shows what we can learn about the grammatical choices that people make based on both observational and experimental data. It conducts detailed state-of-the-art analyses, and discusses the findings within the context of current theoretical models of grammatical variation in World Englishes.

Author : Martin J. Ball,Rajend Mesthrie,Chiara Meluzzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000901962

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The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World by Martin J. Ball,Rajend Mesthrie,Chiara Meluzzi Pdf

Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social settings, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World was originally the first single-volume collection surveying the current research trends in international sociolinguistics. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and significantly expanded, and now includes more than 50 chapters written by leading authorities and a brand-new substantial introduction by John Edwards. Coverage has been expanded regionally and there is a critical focus on Indigenous languages. This handbook remains a key tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers interested in the field. Divided into sections covering the Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, along with the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power, and national identity. The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the ideal resource for all students in undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and for researchers involved in the study of language, society, and power.

Author : Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247032

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Multifaceted Multilingualism by Kleanthes K. Grohmann Pdf

This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core themes: The Early Years (aspects of language acquisition and development, including vernaculars or minority languages, reading, writing, and cognition, and multilingual extensions), Issues in Everyday Life (the role of multilingualism in and for speech–language–communication difficulties, including diagnosis, provisions of services, and later language breakdown), and From the Past to the Future (aspects of multilingualism beyond acquisition, education, or pathology, with a focus on heritage languages and translanguaging). Specialists from each of these areas introduce state-of-the-art research, novel experimental studies, and/or quantitative as well as qualitative data bearing on ‘multifaceted multilingualism’. There is a broad spectrum for take-home messages, ranging from new theoretical analyses or approaches to assess multilingual speakers all the way to recommendations for policy-makers.

Author : Karen V. Beaman,Gregory R. Guy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000550146

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The Coherence of Linguistic Communities by Karen V. Beaman,Gregory R. Guy Pdf

This innovative collection brings together a range of perspectives on the notions of "orderly heterogeneity" and "social meaning", shedding light on how structured variation and indexicalities of social meaning "cohere" within linguistic communities. This book fills a gap in research on language variation by critically considering the position articulated by Weinrich, Labov, and Herzog in 1968 that linguistic diversity is systematically organized in ways that reflect and construct social order. The volume investigates such key themes as covariation and co-occurrence restrictions; indexicality, perception and social meaning; coherence and language change; and the structure and measurement of coherence at different levels of analysis. This collection advances our understanding of the coherence of linguistic communities through empirical investigations of larger and more diverse sets of variables, language varieties, speech styles, and communities, as afforded by the development and advancement of new methods and models in sociolinguistic research. This book is of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, language variation and change, and formal linguistics, as well as those interested in developments on research methods in linguistics.

Author : Sandrine Zufferey,Pascal Gygax
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000919387

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The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics by Sandrine Zufferey,Pascal Gygax Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of various ways in which experiments are used across all domains of linguistics and surveys the range of state-of-the-art methods that can be applied to analyse the language of populations with a wide range of linguistic profiles. Each chapter provides a step-by-step introduction to theoretical and methodological challenges and critically presents a wide range of studies in various domains of experimental linguistics. This handbook: Provides a unified perspective on the data, methods and findings stemming from all experimental research in linguistics Covers many different subfields of linguistics, including argumentation theory, discourse studies and typology Provides an introduction to classical as well as new methods to conduct experiments such as eye tracking and brain imaging Features a range of internationally renowned academics Shows how experimental research can be used to study populations with various linguistic profiles, including young children, people with linguistic impairments, older adults, language learners and bilingual speakers Providing readers with a wealth of theoretical and practical information in order to guide them in designing methodologically sound linguistic experiments, this handbook is essential reading for scholars and students researching in all areas of linguistics.

Author : Remco Knooihuizen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031416927

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The Linguistics of the History of English by Remco Knooihuizen Pdf

This textbook approaches the history of English from a theoretical perspective. The book provides a brief chronological overview describing the way in which the English language has changed over time from Old English to Modern English, while subsequent parts adopt a theoretical focus that is thematically organised to deal with the question of how and why English changed in the way it did, including a part addressing some specific contact-induced changes and key topics such as English as a Lingua Franca. Supported throughout with information boxes with empirical studies, the examples given are all drawn from English, but boxes with examples from other languages tie the development of the English language into changes in other contexts and settings. This book is an ideal resource for undergraduate students of the English Language and historical linguistics.

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512155

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East Anglian English by Peter Trudgill Pdf

This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian sociolinguist and dialectologist who has devoted decades to the study of the speechways of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. He examines their relationships to other varieties of English in Britain, as well as their contributions to the formation of American English and Southern Hemisphere Englishes.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198856153

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The Oxford Handbook of Irish English by Raymond Hickey Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations. The first part of the volume explores English and Irish in their historical framework as well as current issues of contact and bilingualism. Chapters in Part II and Part III investigate the structures and use of Irish English today, from pronunciation and grammar to discourse-pragmatic markers and politeness strategies, alongside studies of specific varieties such as Urban English in Northern Ireland and the Irish English spoken in Dublin, Galway, and Cork. Part IV focuses on the Irish diaspora, with chapters covering topics including Newfoundland Irish English and Irish influence on Australian English, while the final part looks at the wider context, such as the language of Irish Travellers and Irish Sign Language. The handbook also features a detailed glossary of key terms, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers interested in varieties of English, Irish studies, sociolinguistics, and social and cultural history.

Author : Anna Rosen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270528

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Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English by Anna Rosen Pdf

Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the relationships between language and identity.