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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN-13
9781405190688
eBay Product ID (ePID)
404088352
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Religious Sociology
Author
Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre
Publication Name
The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
704 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
249mm
Item Width
179mm
Item Weight
1430g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Editor
Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy