Book description
Written by an international team of leading scholars, this
groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and
diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly
expanding interdisciplinary field.
- Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed
experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area
of historical sociolinguistics
- Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods,
findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past
in order to explain linguistic changes and developments
- Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies
- Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and
theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of
the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables;
historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and
attitudes to language
Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy is Professor in Sociolinguistics
at the University of Murcia, Spain, where he teaches undergraduate
courses on English Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, and the History of
English, as well as sociolinguistic research methods for postgraduate
students. His books include Style-Shifting in Public (with J.
A. Cutillas-Espinosa, 2012), Diccionario de
Sociolingüística (with P. Trudgill, 2007),Metodología de la
Investigación Sociolingüística (with M. Almeida, 2005), and Geolingüística (1999).
Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre is Professor in English Historical
Linguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain, where he teaches on
the History of the English Language and Research Methods in Language
Variation and Change. His books include Sociolinguistica
Histórica (2007), Sociolinguistics and the History of
English (with J. M. Hernández-Campoy, 2005) and Variation and
Linguistic Change in English (with J. M. Hernández-Campoy, 1999).
