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ISOLATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
CONTEMPORARY AND SOCIOHISTORICAL EVIDENCE FROM TRISTAN DA CUNHA ENGLISH |
| By: |
Daniel Schreier |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£70.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1349509248 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781349509249 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2003 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2003 |
| Series: |
Palgrave Studies in Language Variation |
| Pages: |
237 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
XV, 237 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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