Sociolinguistics

"This latest addition to Blackwell's authoritative Handbook serie

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic text, American English: Dialects and Variation 3e chronicles the ongoing story of language variation in American English. For the first time, this textbook is accompanied by a companion website hosting a  wealth of audio and video clips that enhance the themes and discussions of the text. The authors explore contexts   ranging from historically isolated, rural dialects to developing, urban ethnic varieties, and include new discuss

The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.

• The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing field
• Features new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a benchmark for futur

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Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment 1
Raymond Hickey

Part I Contact and Linguistics 29

1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 31
Sarah Thomason

2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact 48
Michael Noonan

3 Contact, Convergence,

Aus: Essener Grundkurs Sprachwissenschaft., Barbara Merken, 24.06.1905

Adamzik möchte sowohl den Menschen, die ein ursprüngliches Interesse an Sprache haben, als auch denen, die sich aufgrund ihres Studiums mit Sprache beschäftigen, einen systematischen Einblick in die Linguistik geben. Das Buch soll allerdings nicht als typisches Arbeitsbuch dienen, sondern eher wie eine Art Nachschlagewerk benutzt werden. Es ist in 40 Kapitel unterteilt, wobei sich m

• 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, findi