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Motives for Language Change
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Raymond Hickey |
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the natu… |
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Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics
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Peter Trudgill |
"In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also caused different r… |
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Analysing older English
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David Denison |
"Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete… |
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Virtual words
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Jonathon Keats |
"The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else woul… |
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The sociolinguistics of globalization
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Jan Blommaert |
"Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'w… |
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Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing
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Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg |
In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in… |
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Language change
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Aitchison, Jean |
This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers… |
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Language contact and grammatical change
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Bernd Heine |
The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms an… |
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Transforming Texts
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Shaun O'toole |
Routledge A Level English Guides equip AS and A2 Level students with the skills they need to explore, evaluate, and enjoy English.Books in the series are built around the various skills specified in … |
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