Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics : stories of colonisation and contact /

"In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also caused different regional dialects of the language to come into contact with each other in colonial situations. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trudgill, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Sociolinguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages > Variation.
Linguistic change.
Languages in contact.
Sociolinguistique.
Linguistique historique.
Variation (Linguistique)
Changement linguistique.
Langues en contact.
sociolinguistics.
historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Historical linguistics
Language and languages > Variation
Languages in contact
Linguistic change
Sociolinguistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Prologue: colonisation and contact; 1. What really happened to Old English?; 2. East Anglian English and the Spanish Inquisition; 3. On Anguilla and The Pickwick Papers; 4. The last Yankee in the Pacific; 5. An American lack of dynamism; 6. Colonial lag?; 7. 'The new non-rhotic style'; 8. What became of all the Scots?; Epilogue: the critical threshold and interactional synchrony.

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