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Language standardization and language change : the dynamics of Cape Dutch /
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) a...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
2004.
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| Collection: | Impact, studies in language and society ;
19. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 langu. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027295798 9027295794 1282160664 9781282160668 9786612160660 6612160667 |
| ISSN: | 1385-7908 ; |