Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch - Couverture rigide

Deumert, Ana

 
9789027218575: Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027218579 ISBN 13 : 9789027218575
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.

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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. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027218579
ISBN 13 
9789027218575
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
381
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1588114929 ISBN 13 :  9781588114921
Editeur : John Benjamins Pub Co, 2004
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