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Isolation and language change : contemporary and sociohistorical evidence from Tristan da Cunha English / Daniel Schreier.
Van Pelt Library PE3330.T7 S37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schreier, Daniel, 1971-
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in language variation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Social aspects--Tristan da Cunha.
- English language.
- English language--Tristan da Cunha.
- Language and languages.
- Social conditions.
- English language--Social aspects.
- Tristan da Cunha--Social conditions.
- Tristan da Cunha.
- Tristan da Cunha--Languages.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 237 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- Extremely isolated communities offer "laboratory conditions" for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first ever ethnographic field work on the most remote island in the world with a permanent population, Tristan da Cunha. It documents the historical formation of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation. It also uncovers the linguistic consequences of post-insularity - language change processes as a result of increasing contacts with other communities and speakers. Researchers and students of language variation will find this book a unique resource.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403904073
- OCLC:
- 50920000
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