Isolation and Language Change : Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence From Tristan da Cunha English Paperback / softback
by D. Schreier
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language Variation series
Paperback / softback
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Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation.
This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a permanent population, Tristan da Cunha.
It documents the historical formation of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation.
It also uncovers the linguistic consequences of post-insularity - language change processes as a result of increasing contacts with other communities and speakers.
Researchers and students of language variation will find this book a unique resource.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:237 pages, XV, 237 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/2003
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- ISBN:9781349509249
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:237 pages, XV, 237 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781349509249
