Sociocultural Dimensions Of Language Change

Author : Ben G. Blount,Mary Sanches
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483277653

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Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change by Ben G. Blount,Mary Sanches Pdf

Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change focuses on the influence of sociocultural terms on the forms of languages. The selection first underscores the sociocultural dimensions of language change and language evolution and speech style. Discussions focus on the relation of speech style and language evolution, linguistic evidence of language evolution, autonomy of code and style, language contact phenomena, and extension of the concept of language. The book then takes a look at speech and social prestige in the Belizian speech community; Japanese numeral classifiers; and speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature. Topics include appearance of varietal names, differentiation and formation of specific names, six universal categories of ethnobotanical nomenclature, salience of speech, and prestige, social success, and language. The publication elaborates on color categorization in West Futunese; creolization and syntactic change in New Guinea Tok Pisin; relexification processes in Philippine Creole Spanish; and the historical and sociocultural aspects of the distribution of linguistic variants in highland Chiapas, Mexico. The selection is a valuable source of data for language experts and researchers interested in the sociocultural dimensions of language change.

Author : Mary Sanches,Ben G. Blount
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4346631

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Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use by Mary Sanches,Ben G. Blount Pdf

Presents detailed articles that shed light upon the ritual and social elements of verbal behavior.

Author : David R. Andrews
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299321

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Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora by David R. Andrews Pdf

This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré Russian with reference to the late Cold-War period which shaped them and the post-Soviet era of today. The book addresses matters of interest not only to Russianists, but to linguists of various theoretical persuasions and to sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians working on a range of related topics. No knowledge of the Russian language is assumed on the part of the reader, and all linguistics examples are presented in standard transliteration and fully explicated.

Author : Peter Petré,Hubert Cuyckens,Frauke D'hoedt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263995

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Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English by Peter Petré,Hubert Cuyckens,Frauke D'hoedt Pdf

The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing on their dynamic and historical dimension. Changes in these are analyzed in order to explain morphological, lexical, and textual changes that would otherwise be hard to account for. Together, they provide a varied window on the effect of historical versions of a dynamic society on lexis and text. Examining lexical and textual change in history from a sociocultural perspective teaches us a great deal – not just about the past, but it also makes us think about similar phenomena in the present, enhancing our knowledge about how universally human some of these phenomena are. This volume will be of great interest to (English) historical linguists, sociolinguists, and scholars of sociohistorical and cultural studies.

Author : Augusto Soares da Silva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110303643

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Pluricentricity by Augusto Soares da Silva Pdf

The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community. Linguistic pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon; it can be understood as either differing national standards or differing local norms. The nine studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. They include research undertaken in both the Cognitive Linguistic and socolinguistic tradition, with particular emphasis upon the emerging framework of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Six languages, all more or less pluricentric, are analyzed: four Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch and Swedish) and two Romance languages (Portuguese and French). The volume describes patterns of phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic variation, and perception and attitudes in relation to these pluricentric languages. It makes use of advanced empirical methods able to account for the complex interplay between conceptual and social aspects of pluricentric variation and other forms of language-internal variation.

Author : Jean Aitchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107023628

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Language Change by Jean Aitchison Pdf

How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

Author : Ana Deumert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027218579

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Language Standardization and Language Change by Ana Deumert Pdf

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.

Author : Edgar C. Polomé
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110875379

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Research Guide on Language Change by Edgar C. Polomé Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Dorit Diskin Ravid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195358131

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Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew by Dorit Diskin Ravid Pdf

The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade. Now seen as part of the study of other forms of language variation across time and space, such as dialects and sociolects, and the study of pidgins and Creoles, it can help to provide a new understanding of how language evolves and what directs its development. Dorit Ravid here provides a study of contemporary speakers of Hebrew, focusing in particular on inflectional morphology. She traces language development from childhood to adulthood in Hebrew speakers, and explores strategies of language acquisition and language processing leading to variation in the spoken Hebrew of speakers of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Author : Ingrid Westin
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9042008636

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Language Change in English Newspaper Editorials by Ingrid Westin Pdf

To test whether the writing style in "up-market" English language newspaper editorials has become less formal over the past century as in many other genres, Westin studied language trends in three major British papers. After overviewing previous research on newspaper language, the author discusses methodological issues in using machine-readable corpora for analyzing linguistic change over time, and her multi-feature/multi-dimensional approach extending Biber's work on markers of personal involvement to include narrative and other forms of discourse. Charted results reveal both linguistic change and continuity. Appends the frequency counts for each of the study's linguistic features. Lacks an index. It is unclear whether Westin is currently affiliated with Uppsala U. or U. College of Gavle, Sweden. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mark F. Rooker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850752301

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Biblical Hebrew in Transition by Mark F. Rooker Pdf

Author : Tom Dutton,Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110883091

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Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World by Tom Dutton,Darrell T. Tryon Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Silke Van Ness
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Competence and performance (Linguistics)
ISBN : 3878084102

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Changes in an Obsolescing Language by Silke Van Ness Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Mertz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483288864

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Semiotic Mediation by Elizabeth Mertz Pdf

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Author : Leo Loveday
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027225511

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Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics by Leo Loveday Pdf

Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics provides a treasure of information on the Japanese language and the social and cultural system it has developed and is embedded in. To the non-specialist, it opens an unknown world. To the specialist it offers theoretical and methodological perspectives aimed at avoiding the interference of myth and musing with accurate characterizations. A general introduction on Japanese sociolinguistics is followed by two case studies, one on the ethnography of ritual and address at a Japanese wedding reception, and one on the pragmatics of Japanese donatory verbs. The final chapter discusses cross-cultural contrasts and the danger of semiotic schism in Japanese-Western interaction.