Labov Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3

Cognitive and Cultural Factors
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5146-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Language in Society

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modernsociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and culturalfactors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life historyof these developments, from triggering events to driving forces andendpoints.
* Explores the major insights obtained by combiningsociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a largescale
* Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible forlinguistic change
* Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from oneanother
* Establishes an essential distinction between transmissionwithin the community and diffusion across communities
* Completes Labov's seminal Principles of LinguisticChange trilogy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Labov, William

Über Autor(innen)

William Labov is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. His major studies include The Social Stratification of English in New York City (1966), Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Language in the Inner City (1972), Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors (Wiley-Blackwell, 1994) and Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001). With S. Ash and C. Boberg, he published the Atlas of North American English in 2006.