A Social History of EnglishRoutledge, 2005 M08 18 - 312 páginas A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Part I Emergence and consolidation | 4 |
Part II Changing patterns of usage | 49 |
Part III Imposition and spread | 125 |
Part IV Evidence interpretation and theory | 184 |