Language change in the 20th century exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in romance languages edited by Salvador Pons Bordería, Shima Salameh Jiménez

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pons Bordería, Salvador.

Salameh Jiménez, Shima.

Series:

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series

Pragmatics and beyond New Series vol.340

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance language--History--20th century.

Romance language.

Linguistic change.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2024]

Summary:

"Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the book advocates for the adoption of innovative methodologies to enhance the nuanced retrieval of research data: the use of speaker's attitudes questionnaires, apparent time constructions, and S-curves. Additionally, new materials are addressed as diachronic data sources: mass-media recordings from radio and TV, colloquial conversations, and sociolinguistic corpora. Results focus on the evolution of discourse markers, address terms, as well as on the influence of specific processes such as colloquialization or external mechanisms on the language changes developed during this period. In sum, the 20th century is presented in this book as a new strand in diachronic studies, rather than another time span"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014

Table of contents

From synchrony to diachrony

Chapter 1. Linguistic change in the 20th century

Chapter 2. The apparent-time construct as a proxy to spoken conversational data in the 20th century

Chapter 3. Cultural products, passing fashions, and linguistic changes

Chapter 4. Diatopic variation as evidence for diachronic changes in the 20th and 21st centuries

Chapter 5. Social indexicality and pragmatic change in the late 20th century

Chapter 6. How are linguistic changes in the 20th century to be studied?

Chapter 7. Bestial and warm addressing forms in Mexican Spanish

Chapter 8. French j’imagine , Spanish me imagino

Chapter 9. Constructional changes in Brazilian Portuguese in the 20th century

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Pons Bordería, Salvador Language Change in the 20th Century

ISBN:

9789027248589

OCLC:

1416748422