The History Of English In A Social Context

Author : Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110167078
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of English in a Social Context written by Dieter Kastovsky and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2000 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important factors in language change is synchronic variation due to social differences including gender-specific language use. The papers in the present volume all address this topic in connection with the history of English. They range from Chaucer's and Shakespeare's forms of address to questions of political correctness today; they also include the discussion of attitudes to regional variation and of the influence of social variation on syntax and phonology as well as the role of standardization in a social context.

Author : Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110810301
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of English in a Social Context written by Dieter Kastovsky and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195065008
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English in Its Social Contexts written by Tim William Machan and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephan Gramley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040013392
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of English written by Stephan Gramley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present. Each chapter represents a new stage in the evolution of the language, all illustrated with a rich and diverse selection of primary texts. The book also explores the wider global course of the language, including a historical review of English in its pidgin and creole varieties and as a native and/or second language in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. The third edition, carefully revised and updated throughout, includes: ● chapter introductions and conclusions to assist in orientation plus additional marginal references throughout; ● the addition of 21 timelines often running from Old English to Present-Day English and focusing on a variety of features; ● a new focus on the relevance of change for and in Present-Day English; ● discussions on the role and image of women, the (in-)visibility of social classes, and regional variation in English; ● material on bilingualism, code-switching, and borrowing, and on the effects of the social media on language use; ● over 90 textual examples demonstrating linguistic change and over 100 figures, tables, and maps, including 31 colour images, to support and illuminate the text; ● updated online support material including brief introductions to Old and to Middle English, further articles on linguistic, historical, and cultural phenomena which go beyond the scope of the book, additional sample texts, exercises, and audio clips. With study questions as well as recommendations for further reading and topics for further study, The History of English is essential reading for any student of the English language and will be of relevance to any course addressing the origins and development of the English language.

Author : Christopher Candlin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415241212
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Language Teaching in Its Social Context written by Christopher Candlin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text includes a selection of commissioned and classic articles that introduce a range of theories of second language acquisition and the contested explanations of effective language learning.

Author : Roy Lowe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415140485
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Education: Education in its social context written by Roy Lowe and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2000 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lon Luvois Fuller
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789026809736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law in a Social Context written by Lon Luvois Fuller and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucien T. Winegar
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805808216
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Development Within Social Context: Metatheory and theory written by Lucien T. Winegar and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These companion volumes bring together research and theoretical work that addresses the relations between social context and the development of children. They allow for the in-depth discussion of a number of vital metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological issues that have emerged as a result of increased investigation in these areas. For example: Which methodological and statistical procedures are appropriate and applicable to studies of social context and processes of development? Should the nature of social context be reconceptualized as something more than different levels of some social independent variable? Are theories of development that do not consider social context incomplete? Will the increasingly finer definitions of social context lead to extreme situationism and contextualism? As developmental theory and investigation continues to address relationships between social and cognitive development, it becomes increasingly important that issues concerning social context be elaborated and discussed.

Author : Adrian Holliday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521437455
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appropriate Methodology and Social Context written by Adrian Holliday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic framework to describe the varying cultures of classrooms, teacher communities and student groups in different countries and educational contexts.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111417506
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic concepts, theories and problems: alternative approaches written by Joshua A. Fishman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.