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Principles of Linguistic Change V3 – Cognitive and Cultural Factors: Language in Society

Autor W Labov
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2010
Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. * Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large scale * Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible for linguistic change * Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from one another * Establishes an essential distinction between transmission within the community and diffusion across communities * Completes Labov's seminal Principles of Linguistic Change trilogy
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405112147
ISBN-10: 140511214X
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: black & white tables, figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:Volume III
Editura: Wiley
Seria Language in Society

Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and researchers in sociolinguistic theory

Cuprins

Forward. Chapter 1. Cognitive and cultural factors in linguistic change. Part A. Cross dialectal comprehension. Chapter 2. Natural misunderstandings. Chapter 3. A controlled experiment on vowel identification. Chapter 4. The gating experiments. Part B. The life history of linguistic change. Chapter 5. Triggering events. Chapter 6. Governing principles. Chapter 7. Forks in the road. Chapter 8. Divergence. Chapter 9. Driving forces. Chapter 10. Yankee cultural imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift. Chapter 11. Social evaluation of the Northern Cities Shift. Chapter 12. Endpoints. Part C. The unit of linguistic change. Chapter 13. Words floating on the surface of sound change. Chapter 14. The binding force in linguistic change. Part D. Transmission and diffusion. Chapter 15 The diffusion of language from place to place. Chapter 16. The diffusion of language from group to group. Chapter 17. Conclusion.

Notă biografică

William Labov is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. His major studies include The Social Stratification of English in New York City (1966), Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Language in the Inner City (1972), Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors (Wiley-Blackwell, 1994) and Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001). With S. Ash and C. Boberg, he published the Atlas of North American English in 2006.

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Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.