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Isolation and Language Change

Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence From Tristan da Cunha English

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-349-50924-9 / 978-1349509249 / 9781349509249

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2003

Seiten: 237

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): D. Schreier

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