Language and Linguistics

Product Description It is quite commonplace for bilingual speakers to use two or more languages, dialects or varieties in the same conversation, without any apparent effort. The phenomenon, known as code-switching, has become a major focus of attention in linguistics. This concise and original study...

About this book The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of English. However, bi- and multilingual texts, which are attested in a large variety of text types, are still an underresearched aspect of earlier linguistic contact....

Subjects: Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact Description Product Description Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties...

fortune-nwaiwu.onlineweb.shop Description Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles aims to introduce the reader to the exciting and important field of pidgin and creole studies. The book deals with the linguistic, historical and social aspects of the development of pidgin and creole languages. Detailed...

Content 1Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.1What Is Contrastive Linguistics?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.1.1 The Name and Nature of Contrastive Linguistics. . . . . . . .2 1.1.2 Micro-Contrastive Linguistics and...

It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the linguistic...

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists...

Book Description Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson's landmark text Des îles, des hommes, des langues , which has also been fully revised. . With reference to the main varieties of creole French, Chaudenson argues against the traditional account of...

Preview pages_1_17 Download Book details ISBN-109027253072 ISBN-13978-9027253071 Edition46th PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company Publication dateJuly 9, 2008 LanguageEnglish Dimensions6.75 x 1.25 x 10 inches Print length 372 pages Description This volume presents recent generative research on...

Book Description This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and...

Book Description Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the opportunity to engage directly with some of the foundational...

Abstract Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history...