Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography o...
Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large scale Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible for linguistic change Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from one another Establishes an essential distinction between transmission within the community and diffusion across communities Completes Labov’s seminal Principles of Linguistic Change trilogy
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Social factors will designate the effects of linguistic interaction among members of specific social groups, including the recognition of these effects by members and nonmembers. Cultural factors will designate the association of linguistic change with broader social patterns that are partly, if not entirely, independent of face-to-face interaction. (查看原文)
Transmission is seen as the product of children’s cognitive capacities as language learners: it is the basic process responsible both for stability and for the regularity of change within the speech community. Diffusion across speech com- munities, on the other hand, is seen as the product of the more limited learning capacity of adults. Because adults acquire language in a less regular and faithful manner than children do, the results of such language contact are found to be less regular and less consistent than transmission within the community. (查看原文)
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