English Historical Sociolinguistics.
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| Author / Creator: | Millar, Robert McColl. |
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| Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10021597 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Towards a sociolinguistic history of the English language; 1 Sociolinguistics: an overview; 2 Language change and sociolinguistic processes in the past; 3 Standardisation; 4 Codification and ideology; 5 Contact and shift as agents of change; 6 Linguistic contact and new dialect formation; 7 Some final thoughts; References; Index