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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics features 35 newly-written essays that explore how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be applied to the process of reconstruction of a language's past in order to account for diachronic linguistic changes and developments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Plates x Figures x Maps xii Tables xiii Notes on Contributors xv Preface xxvii Teresa Fanego Introduction 1 J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre & Juan M. Hernández-Campoy Part I Origins and Theoretical Assumptions 9 1 Diachrony vs Synchrony: the Complementary Evolution of Two (Ir)reconcilable Dimensions 11 Jean Aitchison 2 Historical Sociolinguistics: Origins, Motivations, and Paradigms 22 Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg 3 Social History and the Sociology of Language 41 Robert McColl Millar Part II Methods for the Sociolinguistic Study of the History of Languages 61 4 The Application of the Quantitative Paradigm to Historical Sociolinguistics: Problems with the Generalizability Principle 63 Juan M. Hernández-Campoy and Natalie Schilling 5 The Uniformitarian Principle and the Risk of Anachronisms in Language and Social History 80 Alexander Bergs 6 The Use of Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Linguistic Variation and Change: Types and Computational Applications 99 Pascual Cantos 7 Editing the Medieval Manuscript in its Social Context 123 Nila Vázquez and Teresa Marqués-Aguado 8 Medical, Official, and Monastic Documents in Sociolinguistic Research 140 Laura Esteban-Segura 9 The Use of Private Letters and Diaries in Sociolinguistic Investigation 156 Stephan Elspass 10 The Use of Literary Sources in Historical Sociolinguistic Research 1...
