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The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

$58.42

Publisher: Wiley

Author: Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy

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
ISBN: 9781118798027
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley Blackwell
Published date:
DEWEY: 306.4409
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 704
Weight: 1060g
Height: 245mm
Width: 169mm
Spine width: 32mm

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