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9780195065008

English in Its Social Contexts Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195065008

  • ISBN10:

    019506500X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-04-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The second volume in the Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics series, this collection of essays addresses each of the traditional periods of English, acknowledging the effect of external social context on determining the direction of changes within the language's syntax, phonology, and lexicon.Topics covered include the social status and uses of English, the relationship between English and co-existent languages, the relationship between varieties of spoken and written language, language as a political and socioeconomic instrument, and attitudes towards varieties of English. A broadintroduction to sociolinguistics, this text also provides students of linguistics and the English language with an important revision of the traditional approaches to the history of language.

Table of Contents

The Phonemes of Present-Day English
Contrastive Pairs
Introduction: Sociolinguistics, Language Change, and the History of English
The Social and Political Contexts of Language Change in Anglo-Saxon England
The Use of English: Language Contact, Dialect Variation and Written Standardization during the Middle English Period
""O! when degree is shak'd"": Sixteenth-Century Anticipation of Some Modern Attitudes towards Usage
Style and Standardization in England: 1700-1900
The Mayflower to the Model-T: The Development of American English
Sociolinguistic Attitudes and Issues in Contemporary Britain
A Polyphony of Voices: The Dialectics of Linguistic Unity and Diversity in the Twentieth-Century United States
Social Contexts in the History of Australian English
The Second Diaspora of English
Afterword: English: from Village to Global Village
Index
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