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Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts have been made to extrapolate backwards and interpret pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Millar, Robert McColl, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.
Temas:
English language > Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics > History.
English language > Variation.
Sociolinguistique > Histoire.
Anglais (Langue) > Variation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Sociolinguistics.
Englisch
Historische Sprachwissenschaft
Soziolinguistik
Lehrbuch.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Towards a sociolinguistic history of the English language; 1 Sociolinguistics: an overview; 2 Language change and sociolinguistic processes in the past; 3 Standardisation; 4 Codification and ideology; 5 Contact and shift as agents of change; 6 Linguistic contact and new dialect formation; 7 Some final thoughts; References; Index

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