Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics - Stories of Colonisation and Contact

Informationen zum Autor Peter Trudgill is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. Klappentext Containing tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection, this book provides a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English. Zusammenfassung Made up of a number of fascinating tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection! this book provides a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English. This entertaining yet rigorous account will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics! sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: colonisation and contact; 1. What really happened to Old English?; 2. East Anglian English and the Spanish Inquisition; 3. On Anguilla and The Pickwick Papers; 4. The last Yankee in the Pacific; 5. An American lack of dynamism; 6. Colonial lag?; 7. 'The new non-rhotic style'; 8. What became of all the Scots?; Epilogue: the critical threshold and interactional synchrony.

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• Authors: Peter Trudgill, Peter (Universitet I Agder Trudgill, Peter (Universitetet I Agder Trudgill, Trudgill Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521115292
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11529-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics