Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3
Cognitive and Cultural Factors
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Beschreibung
Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modernsociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and culturalfactors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life historyof these developments, from triggering events to driving forces andendpoints.
* Explores the major insights obtained by combiningsociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a largescale
* Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible forlinguistic change
* Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from oneanother
* Establishes an essential distinction between transmissionwithin the community and diffusion across communities
* Completes Labov's seminal Principles of LinguisticChange trilogy
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William Labov
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"The culminating volume in Labov's magnum opus on languagevariation and change will assure forever his indelible imprint onthe field of linguistics. Thanks to Labov, the field should neverbe the same."
-- Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University
"William Labov completes his monumental study of sound change byexamining the forces that drive divergence and convergence inneighboring communities. His impeccable attention to detail isilluminated, as always, by his sensitivity to the social, communaland personal motives that lie behind the ways in which we talk toone another."
-- J.K. Chambers, University of Toronto
"Labov's inexhaustible creative wellspring produces a fountainof insight and essential reading for all scholars concerned withlanguage as a dynamic social organism. This volume assembleselements of his work into a grand mosaic: a work of science, butalso a work of art."
-- Gregory R. Guy, New York University
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