John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 324 p. — (Studies in Bilingualism 58). Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special...
New York & London: Routledge, 2009. — 214 p.
In this book H.D. Adamson reviews scholarship in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, comparing theories of variation in first and second-language speech, with special attention to the psychological underpinnings of variation theory. Interlanguage is what second language learners speak. It contains syntactic,...
Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2015. — 339 p. — (Studia Fennica Linguistica 18). — ISBN: 978-952-222-673-0; ISBN: 978-952-222-798-0; ISBN: 978-952-222-799-7. In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to...
Third edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 312 p. — (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics).
This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress....
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010. — 889 p. — ISBN10: 3110180022; ISBN13: 978-3110180022. The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the 'deepest' dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 909 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 30.1). The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the “deepest” dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. — 311 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 14). Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011 The eighteen contributions in this volume are based on papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), which was held at...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023. — VI, 220 p. — (Trends in Linguistics Series, Volume 374). This book offers a collection of chapters that explore the interplay between cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic perspectives to the study of language variation. Variation is an inherent property of natural languages and is pervasive across several...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 405 p.
Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sound system or the sentence structure of a particular language? Why is the study of language variation important outside the academic world, in say education, the law, employment...
London; New York: Routledge, 1996. — 240 p. Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book: looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry and literature provides an accessible and...
A cross-linguistic comparison. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 448 p. Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988), and adds for the first time a diachronic dimension. In it he gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 386 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today). — ISBN10: 9027257175. — ISBN13: 978-9027257178. The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 553 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 265). The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — 332 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 555). Introduction - David Bradley Hmong secret languages: themes and variations - Martha Ratliff Variegated tonal developments in Tibetan - Jackson T.-S . Sun Some case studies on linguistic variation and their implications - Carol Genetti Recent language...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. — 305 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 16). Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but...
Oxford University Press, 1990. — xvii, 169 pages. — ISBN: 0-19-506365-1. South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a leading authority on South Asian...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. — 255 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 19). Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015 Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig...
Routledge, 2017. — 314 p. — ISBN: 9781315463018. The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular...
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. — 760 p. The notion of cultural aspects of language variation and change is a growing field. However, collective works on the current stance within this domain are still scarce. The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures embraces a substantial part of the Eurasian continent and equips the reader to better observe, reconstruct and understand the impact...
Second Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — xvii, 578 pages. — ISBN: 978-0-470-65994-6. Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully revised and...
London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. — 807 p. The Handbook of Language Variation and Change is a convenient, hand-held repository of the essential knowledge about the study of language variation and change. This Handbook allows the next generation of academics to perpetuate all of these fields of study and explore them with the kind of depth unimaginable to their predecessors....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 224 p.
Style refers to ways of speaking – how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different...
Mouton De Gruyter, 2011. — 320 p. The author takes her reader on an amazing variationist journey around the globe, revealing chapter after chapter the commonalities and differences in the patterns of use of the English present perfect and, finally, developing a comprehensive perspective allowing for robust generalisations across numerous data sets. Moreover, empirical data...
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 354 p. — (Cognitive Linguistics Research, Volume 52). — ISBN: 978-3-11-033545-3; ISBN: 978-3-11-039539-6. This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread...
Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 408 p. — ISBN13: 978-3110198690. The present volume emerged from the contributions to the 4. Blankensee-Colloquium which took place on July 14–16, 2005 in Berlin-Schmöckwitz. Introduction (Regine Eckardt) Survey Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change. (Anette Rosenbach) Formal Approaches...
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001. — 359 pages.
The study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. The analysis of style in speech is central to this field because it varies not only between speakers, but in individual speakers as they move from one style to another. Studying these variations in language not only...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989. — 465 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 52). The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 268 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 7). Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009 Language Variation – European Perspectives III contains 18 selected papers from the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which took place in Copenhagen...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1997. — 321 p. — (Trends in Linguistics). — ISBN10: 3110149133, 13 978-3110149135. This collection of articles offers insights into language change as a function of communicative use. The multiple factors underlying change are described and possible explanations are adduced. It is shown that change is a function of communicative choices and their mapping onto...
// World Englishes, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 143–161
This paper investigates cross-cultural and cross-register variation from four corpora of internet blogs and online opinion columns written in English by Filipino and American authors. A multi-dimensional analysis following established linguistic dimensions from Grieve, Biber, Friginal, and Nekrasova was used to compare the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 1256 S. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 30.4). Der vorliegende Band zeigt die areale Sprachvariation im Deutschen in neuer Sicht. Das gesamte regionalsprachliche Spektrum vom Basisdialekt über den Regionaldialekt bis hin zum Regionalakzent wird behandelt. Dargestellt werden nicht allein die sprachlichen Eigenschaften der...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 1256 S. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 30.4). Der vorliegende Band zeigt die areale Sprachvariation im Deutschen in neuer Sicht. Das gesamte regionalsprachliche Spektrum vom Basisdialekt über den Regionaldialekt bis hin zum Regionalakzent wird behandelt. Dargestellt werden nicht allein die sprachlichen Eigenschaften der...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006. — 286 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 1). Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005 This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and Hungarian....
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 960 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 30.3). This handbook aims at a state-of-the-art overview of both earlier and recent research into older, newer and emerging non-standard varieties (dialects, regiolects, sociolects, ethnolects, substandard varieties), transplanted varieties and daughter languages (mixed languages,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1998. — 317 p. — (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 114). — ISBN 3110156342, 9783110156348. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1998. — 317 p. — (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 114). — ISBN 3110156342, 9783110156348. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 273 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 21). The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the...
Oxford University Press. First Edition. 2002. — 310 pages. — ISBN: 0198299788 How does a language come into being and when does it disappear? What actually happened to Latin? When was English created? Will all people on Earth speak English or Chinese in 200 years? These are a few of the fascinating questions discussed in A Short History of Languages. It is about how historical...
Routledge, 2006. — 229 p. — ISBN: 0415317746. In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and possible motivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes. Presenting new or little-known data, the authors draw a distinction between "unconscious" and "deliberate"...
World Publishing Guangdong Corporation, 2011. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 7510031117, 13 978-7510031113. — English, Chinese. This text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 328 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 8). In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries. This work is continued in the present volume, with the aim of bringing...
In: Wodak R et. al (eds.). Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics. — Sage Publications 2010. — p. 219-235. Chaper in the book on sociolinguistics discussing social approaches to language change. Furthermore, the author examines neogrammarian change and lexical diffusion.
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 217 p. — (Edinburgh Sociolinguistics). The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and linguistic perception. By considering both structure and...
Georgetown University Press, 2008. — 245 p. In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity...
Routledge, 2018. — 175 p. — (Routledge Guides to Linguistics). — ISBN10: 1138234672, 13 978-1138234673. Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a lively and concise introduction to language change, refuting commonly held misconceptions about language evolution as we understand...
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010. — 364 p. This volume is based on a workshop organized as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) in 2007. The workshop focused on the role of syntax in the emergence of new genres and brought together insights from research that uses the concept of genre as a reference-point for the description (and,...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — xxvi, 511 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00490-0; ISBN: 978-0-521-18186-0. Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a strong empirical focus. Containing 23 chapters, each devoted to a different research method, this volume brings together the expertise and insight of a range of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 937 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 30.2). The Handbook of Language Mapping aims to explore the core methodological and theoretical approaches of linguistic cartography. In both empirical and theoretical linguistics, the spatial variation of language is of increasing interest and the visualization of language in space is...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 92 p. This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging and linguistic commodification, and using the popular Facebook page Kongish Daily as a case in point, the study outlines the semiotic profile of Kongish. It...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. — 347 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 10). Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation...
John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2008 — 192 p. — ISBN: 9027218625
While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony’s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between the three principal...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. — 276 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 108). This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, contrastive linguistics, language...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. — 205 p. — (Benjamins Current Topics 97). This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variation in several domains, addressing intra- and inter-dialectal patterns, using diverse sources of data including corpora of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 348 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 368). Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 468 p. — ISBN10: 0198709846. — ISBN13: 978-0198709848. This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical rules in language usage. Speakers and addressees need to contend with these rules when expressing themselves and when trying to comprehend messages. For example, there are on-going competitions...
N. Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.— xiv, 246 p.
This book presents a sociolinguistic study based on modern recorded dialect data. The purpose of the study was to develop a theoretical sociolinguistic framework which can aid our understanding of the diffusion of language change within a community. The study was conducted in order to establish what social factors might be involved...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 344 p. While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, this contribution redirects the necessary focus onto a sociolinguistics of swearing that puts transgressive practices in non-Western languages into the focus. The...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 349 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 2). Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. — vi, 450 p. — (Language Variation 7). — ISBN 978-3-96110-338-6; ISSN 2366-7818. Do speakers’ identity constructions influence the emergence of new varieties of a language? This question is at the heart of a debate about how the process of the emergence of postcolonial varieties of English can best be modeled. This volume contributes to the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 260 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 22). Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017 This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986. — 445 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 53). This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992. — 392 p. — (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe 39). Czech, a clear case of a language having a Standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between them, offers many points of general interest to sociolinguists. This volume is divided in 5 chapters and opens with a general discussion of language...
Routledge, 1994. — 74 p. Using this book Language is always changing English in the past Borrowing words Creating words Change in pronunciation Change in spelling Change in grammar Change in meaning The origin of dialects Relatedness between languages More remote relations The birth and death of languages Attitudes towards language change Putting it all together Further reading...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 210 p. The first recorded English name for the make-up we now call blusher was paint, in 1660. In the 1700s a new word, rouge, displaced paint, and remained in standard usage for around two centuries. Then, in 1965, an advertisement coined a new word for the product: blusher. Each generation speaks a little differently, and every...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 170 p. Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles explores these questions and more. Focused around the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 250 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 5). Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007 This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), which was held at the University of Cyprus from...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 287 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 324). Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgrounds. By taking a deliberately broad perspective on the matter, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also...
Четыре главы книги по лингвистике - 177 стр. на английском языке Chapter 1 - language, dialect, accent, variety and standard English A brief history of the standardisation of English in England A brief history of the standardisation of English in the USA Linguistic variation Social variation etc. Chapter 2 - Pragmatics and Discourse Language, meaning and communication Language...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. — 158 p. — (Studies in Language Variation 6). The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate...
Routledge, 2010. — 177 p. — ISBN10: 041599067X, 13 978-0415990677. Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a theoretical and quantitative approach to the study of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 417 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 363). This volume offers several empirical, methodological, and theoretical approaches to the study of observable variation within individuals on various linguistic levels. With a focus on German varieties, the chapters provide answers on the following questions (inter alia): Which...
Монография. — Под ред. З.М. Богословской. — Томск: Томский политехнический университет, 2015. — 272 с. — ISBN 978-5-4387-0588-8. Коллективная монография подготовлена на базе материалов VI Международного научного семинара молодых ученых «Варьирование в языке и культура речи» (25–29 июня 2014 г.). В ней освещены лингвокогнитивные и функциональные аспекты вариалогии. Явление...
Cборник научных трудов. — М.: ИНИОН РАН, 2017. — 193 с. — (Теория и история языкознания). Рассматривается проблематика динамических процессов в языковой и речевой норме. Особое внимание уделяется исследованию языковой и речевой вариативности как имманентной характеристики любого живого языка; вопросам национальной дифференциации германских и романских языков. Анализируются их...
Петренко А.Д., Ласкова М.В., Лазарев В.А., Петренко Д.А., Храбскова Д.М., Мележик К.А., Бридко Т.В., Пономарева А.В., Иштоян К.Г. — М.: Перо, 2015. — 491 с. В монографии рассматривается ряд актуальных проблем современного языкознания, социальной лингвистики, лингвистики текста, теории языковых контактов. Обращаясь к изучению социолингвистических параметров вариативности языка как...
Монография. — Саки: Предприятие Феникс, 2013. — 276 с. В предлагаемой монографии рассматриваются актуальные проблемы языковой вариативности в русле современной социолингвистики, теории языковых контактов, билингвизма и интерференции, представлены результаты полевых исследований в области фоностилистики и социофонетики с использованием ситуативного и стратификационного методов...
Туапсе, 2000. 71 стр.
В предлагаемой вниманию читателя брошюре рассматривается состояние русского языка конца XX века. Автор анализирует социальные причины, лежащие в основе многочисленных изменений, происходящих в современном русском языке, прослеживает конкретное влияние тех или иных социальных факторов на изменения в языке и общении. Выявляются основные тенденции эволюции и...
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