Overview
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
Full Product Details
Author: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy (University of Murcia, Spain) ,
Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre (University of Murcia, Spain)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 17.90cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 25.50cm
Weight: 1.238kg
ISBN: 9781405190688
ISBN 10: 140519068
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 30 March 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9781394275984
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“Taken as a whole, The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics offers the reader an incomparable source of state-of-the-art papers in the field, most of which were written exclusively for the present edition. I am sure it will become a required text for those delving into the discipline.” (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1 October 2014) “In this respect, the Handbook represents both an excellent summary of the state of the art in historical sociolinguistics and a good starting point for further research.” (Linguistlist, 1 April 2013)
<p> In this respect, the Handbook represents both an excellent summary of the state of the art in historical sociolinguistics and a good starting point for further research. (Linguistlist, 1 April 2013)
In this respect, the Handbook represents both anexcellent summary of the state of the art in historicalsociolinguistics and a good starting point for furtherresearch. (Linguistlist, 1 April 2013)
In this respect, the Handbook represents both an excellent summary of the state of the art in historical sociolinguistics and a good starting point for further research. ( Linguistlist , 1 April 2013)
Author Information
Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy is Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain, where he teaches undergraduate courses on English Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, and the History of English, as well as sociolinguistic research methods for postgraduate students. His books include Style-Shifting in Public (with J.A. Cutillas-Espinosa, 2012), Diccionario de Sociolingüística (with P. Trudgill, 2007), Metodología de la Investigación Sociolingüística (with M. Almeida, 2005), and Geolingüística (1999). Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre is Professor in English Historical Linguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain, where he teaches on the History of the English Language and Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. His books include Sociolinguistica Histórica (2007), Sociolinguistics and the History of English (with J.M. Hernández-Campoy, 2005) and Variation and Linguistic Change in English (with J.M. Hernández-Campoy, 1999).
