Language Change in the 20th Century Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Shima Salameh Jiménez

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Pons Bordería, Salvador, editor.
• Salameh Jiménez, Shima, editor.

Series:

• Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 340

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Discourse studies.
• Historical linguistics.
• Pragmatics.
• Romance linguistics.
• Sociolinguistics and Dialectology.

Local Subjects:

• Discourse studies.
• Historical linguistics.
• Pragmatics.
• Romance linguistics.
• Sociolinguistics and Dialectology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 292 pages)

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:

• From synchrony to diachrony / Salvador Pons Bordería and Shima Salameh Jiménez
• Chapter 1. Linguistic change in the 20th century / Shima Salameh Jiménez
• Chapter 2. The apparent-time construct as a proxy to spoken conversational data in the 20th century / Renata Enghels and Linde Roels
• Chapter 3. Cultural products, passing fashions, and linguistic changes / Chiara Fedriani and Piera Molinelli
• Chapter 4. Diatopic variation as evidence for diachronic changes in the 20th and 21st centuries / Wiltrud Mihatsch and Ana Vazeilles
• Chapter 5. Social indexicality and pragmatic change in the late 20th century / Chiara Ghezzi
• Chapter 6. How are linguistic changes in the 20th century to be studied? / Salvador Pons Bordería
• Chapter 7. Bestial and warm addressing forms in Mexican Spanish / Ricardo Maldonado
• Chapter 8. French j'imagine , Spanish me imagino / Stefan Schneider
• Chapter 9. Constructional changes in Brazilian Portuguese in the 20th century / Augusto Soares da Silva

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027248589

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.