دانلود کتاب The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

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. Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguistics Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developments Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables; historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and attitudes to language Content: Chapter 1 Diachrony vs Synchrony: The Complementary Evolution of Two (Ir)reconcilable Dimensions (pages 9–21): Jean AitchisonChapter 2 Historical Sociolinguistics: Origins, Motivations, and Paradigms (pages 22–40): Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin?BrunbergChapter 3 Social History and the Sociology of Language (pages 41–59): Robert McColl MillarChapter 4 The Application of the Quantitative Paradigm to Historical Sociolinguistics: Problems with the Generalizability Principle (pages 61–79): Juan M. Hernandez?Campoy and Natalie SchillingChapter 5 The Uniformitarian Principle and the Risk of Anachronisms in Language and Social History (pages 80–98): Alexander BergsChapter 6 The Use of Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Linguistic Variation and Change: Types and Computational Applications (pages 99–122): Pascual CantosChapter 7 Editing the Medieval Manuscript in its Social Context (pages 123–139): Nila Vazquez and Teresa Marques?AguadoChapter 8 Medical, Official, and Monastic Documents in Sociolinguistic Research (pages 140–155): Laura Esteban?SeguraChapter 9 The Use of Private Letters and Diaries in Sociolinguistic Investigation (pages 156–169): Stephan ElspassChapter 10 The Use of Literary Sources in Historical Sociolinguistic Research (pages 170–190): K. AnipaChapter 11 Early Advertising and Newspapers as Sources of Sociolinguistic Investigation (pages 191–210): Carol PercyChapter 12 Orthographic Variables (pages 211–236): Hanna Rutkowska and Paul RosslerChapter 13 Phonological Variables (pages 237–252): Anna HebdaChapter 14 Grammatical Variables (pages 253–270): Anita Auer and Anja VoesteChapter 15 Lexical?Semantic Variables (pages 271–292): Joachim GrzegaChapter 16 Pragmatic Variables (pages 293–306): Andreas H. Jucker and Irma TaavitsainenChapter 17 Class, Age, and Gender?Based Patterns (pages 307–331): Agnieszka Kielkiewicz?JanowiakChapter 18 The Role of Social Networks and Mobility in Diachronic Sociolinguistics (pages 332–352): Juan Camilo Conde?SilvestreChapter 19 Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Castes (pages 353–365): Rajend MesthrieChapter 20 The Teleology of Change: Functional and Non?Functional Explanations for Language Variation and Change (pages 367–386): Paul T. RobergeChapter 21 Internally? and Externally?Motivated Language Change (pages 387–407): Raymond HickeyChapter 22 Lexical Diffusion and the Regular Transmission of Language Change in its Sociohistorical Context (pages 408–426): Brian D. JosephChapter 23 The Timing of Language Change (pages 427–450): Mieko OguraChapter 24 Innovation Diffusion in Sociohistorical Linguistics (pages 451–464): David BritainChapter 25 Historical Dialectology: Space as a Variable in the Reconstruction of Regional Dialects (pages 465–479): Anneli Meurman?SolinChapter 26 Linguistic Atlases: Empirical Evidence for Dialect Change in the History of Languages (pages 480–500): Roland KehreinChapter 27 Historical Sociolinguistic Reconstruction beyond Europe: Case Studies from South Asia and Fiji (pages 501–519): Matthew ToulminChapter 28 Multilingualism, Code?Switching, and Language Contact in Historical Sociolinguistics (pages 520–533): Herbert SchendlChapter 29 The Impact of Migratory Movements on Linguistic Systems: Transplanted Speech Communities and Varieties from a Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective (pages 534–551): Daniel SchreierChapter 30 Convergence and Divergence in World Languages (pages 552–567): Roger WrightChapter 31 Sociolinguistics and Ideologies in Language History (pages 569–584): James MilroyChapter 32 Language Myths (pages 585–606): Richard J. WattsChapter 33 Linguistic Purism (pages 607–625): Nils Langer and Agnete NesseChapter 34 The Reconstruction of Prestige Patterns in Language History (pages 626–638): Anni Sairio and Minna Palander?CollinChapter 35 Written Vernaculars in Medieval and Renaissance Times (pages 639–654): Catharina Peersman