Language standardization and language change : the dynamics of Cape Dutch / Ana Deumert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deumert, Ana.

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; 19.

Impact, studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afrikaans language--Standardization.

Afrikaans language.

Afrikaans language--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 361 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community.

Contents:

Language Standardization and Language Change; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; History; Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics; Afrikaner nationalism and the discovery of the vernacular; The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence and the social context of language use in the nineteenth century; Variation analysis; On the analysis of variability and uniformity; The gradualness of morphosyntactic change; Morpholexical and syntactic variation; The Cape Dutch variety spectrum

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160660

9781282160668

1282160664

9789027295798

9027295794

OCLC:

70771530