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The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages.* An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact* Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars* Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world* Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society* Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics
List of contents
Notes on Contributors.Preface.Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment.Part I: Contact and Linguistics.Part II: Contact and Change.Part III: Contact and Society.Part IV: Case Studies of Contact.
About the author
Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010). He has also published over 80 articles on various issues within linguistics and produced an electronic corpus of Irish English.
Summary
The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages.
* An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact
* Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars
* Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world
* Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society
* Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics
Report
"This volume represents a welcome addition to theliterature on language contact, assembling contributions frominternational experts to offer an extensive resource whichencompasses a broad range of language contactresearch." ( The Linguist List , 12 April2014)
"Despite its century-long history, contact linguistics hasreceived unprecedented attention in the past decades, and it is inthis context that one must view the publication of The handbookof contact linguistics (henceforth HLC), edited by Raymond Hickeyfor the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series. While a handbookis essentially a reference work aimed at introducing particularconcepts for a given discipline, it is also, by its encompassingnature, an opportunity to capture the current state of thatdiscipline and the directions in which it is moving." (TheLinguist, 6 January 2012)
