Handbook Language Contact (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Hickey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140517580X ISBN 13: 9781405175807

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 2010

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The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverageof the major issues in this field ranging from the value ofcontact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration,to dialectology combining new research from a team ofglobally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerouslanguages. * An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues inthe field of language contact: the study of how language changeswhen speakers of distinct speech varieties interact * Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by aninternational team of scholars * Examines language contact in societies which have significantimmigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-sectionof case studies drawing on languages across the world * Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place ofcontact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contactstudies for research into language change; and language contact inthe context of work on language and society * Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellentresource for both faculty and students across a variety of fieldswithin linguistics

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Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010). He has also published over 80 articles on various issues within linguistics and produced an electronic corpus of Irish English.

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Language contact has an impact upon virtually all aspects of language change, and is increasingly a major topic of research within linguistics. The Handbook of Language Contact encompasses every area of language contact in a systematic and focused approach, and contains 40 specially commissioned essays by a team of globally renowned scholars who offer a wide-ranging exploration of the field. The volume contains numerous case studies from languages across the world, attesting to the variety and linguistic significance of this subject.

This authoritative handbook is accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society. The final section of the volume offers a representative cross-section of individual studies which reappraise the role of language contact in their respective contexts.

The Handbook is an essential reference for linguists working in the fields of language contact and change, language theory, sociolinguistics, and bilingualism.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 140517580X
• ISBN 13: 9781405175807
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 890
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