Brepols, 2013. — 421 p. — (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 19). This book analyses later medieval writing in Latin, English, and French as it relates to reading formations and textual materialities. It offers a theoretical approach to literacy as fundamentally socially-situated, subject-making, and multilingual. New Literacy Studies, close reading, and historical...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 281 p. — 052182088X, 9780521820882. Drawing on a range of case studies, this systematic study demonstrates the variety of language usage in seventeenth-century France, a time considered to be the most "standardizing" in the history of French. Variation is analyzed in terms of gender, age and socio-economic status, or by the medium, register...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 266 p. — ISBN10: 3319553658, 13 978-3319553658. This book addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region. Including a foreword by Professor Ken Hyland, it brings together a number of thought-provoking chapters on the history, concept, and ground realities coupled with critical comparative discussions of writing centres in the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2005. — 334 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics 51). — ISBN 3110183102, 9783110183108. The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). In three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 408 p. Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the world. Multilingualism was, however, certainly rather common already, if not especially, in the premodern world. For some time...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 408 p. Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the world. Multilingualism was, however, certainly rather common already, if not especially, in the pre-modern world. For some time...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 236 p. — ISBN 019506061X, 9780195060614. Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a...
Blackwell, 2008. — x, 199 p. — ISBN 978-1-4051-0569-9. Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world: Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule Traces the uses...
Brill, 2021. — 564 p. — (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 27). This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records. Building on previous work on the uses of the written word in the early Middle Ages, which has dispelled the myth that this was an age of ‘orality’, the contributions in this volume bring to the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — xxx, 674 pages. — (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-9068-8. 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. Origins and Theoretical Assumptions...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 288 p. This collection of essays charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various (northern) European languages and texts written in them. The central themes of Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas are: how the ideas related to Lutheranism were adapted to the new areas, new languages, and...
Brepols Publishers, 2012. — 316 p. — (International medieval research). — ISBN10: 2503520642, ISBN13: 978-2503520643. This book probes the nature of the clash of cultures as a process of identification and classification of the unknown. 'There is no world of thought that is not a world of language and one sees of the world only what is provided for by language' (Walter...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 264 p. The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters. In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learning—classical Arabic and medieval Latin—as they crossed the Mediterranean. Through anecdotes of...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 248 p. The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters. In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learning - classical Arabic and medieval Latin - as they crossed the Mediterranean. Through anecdotes of...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 264 p. The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters. In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learning—classical Arabic and medieval Latin—as they crossed the Mediterranean. Through anecdotes of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 247 p. This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, along with an analysis of why periods of linguistic diversity are followed by hegemony. Prologue Sociology of Language: An Introduction Linguistic Prehistory The First European Literacies The First...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — 237 p. — (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced). — ISBN 0748641815, 9780748641819. Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — xvi + 418 p. This is the story of the transformation of the ways in which the increasingly Christianized elites of the late antique Mediterranean experienced and conceptualized linguistic differences. The metaphor of Babel stands for the magnificent edifice of classical culture that was about to reach the sky, but remained self-sufficient and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 374 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 310). This book explores the linguistic expression of identity, intended as the social positioning of self and others, by focusing mostly on a scenario of prolonged language contact, namely the ancient Mediterranean area. The volume includes studies on language contact and on identity...
2nd Ed. — Routledge, 2017. — 319 p. — ISBN10: 1138951323, 13 978-1138951327, ASIN B078Z11S27. Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the fi eld of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic...
Cambridge University Press, 1982. — xii, 315 pages. — (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-0-521-23750-5; ISBN: 978-0-521-11233-8. Synchronic sociolinguistics has been particularly convincing in its use of quantitative models to demonstrates how 'the present might explain the past'. However, the relevance of sociolinguistics to historical linguistics 'using the past...
Monograph. — Leiden: Brill, 2023. — 177 p. — (Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period). Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 320 p. — (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 9). The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. — 287 p. — (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics). — ISBN 9027200807, 9789027200808. The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters, diaries and autobiography, this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods, from the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. — 287 p. — (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 1). — ISBN 9027200807, 9789027200808. The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters, diaries and autobiography, this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods, from the...
2-е изд., доп. — М.: Добросвет-2000, 2004. — 256 с.
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Книга Р. А. Будагова дополняет материал учебников и учебных пособий по курсу «Общее языкознание». Автор на конкретном материале показывает формирование общих линий значения или значений слов в связи с историей общества, что поможет глубже понять материал темы...
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