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Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change
- 1st Edition - March 28, 1977
- Editors: Ben G. Blount, Mary Sanches
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 7 6 5 - 3
Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change focuses on the influence of sociocultural terms on the forms of languages. The selection first underscores the sociocultural dimensions… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSociocultural Dimensions of Language Change focuses on the influence of sociocultural terms on the forms of languages. The selection first underscores the sociocultural dimensions of language change and language evolution and speech style. Discussions focus on the relation of speech style and language evolution, linguistic evidence of language evolution, autonomy of code and style, language contact phenomena, and extension of the concept of language. The book then takes a look at speech and social prestige in the Belizian speech community; Japanese numeral classifiers; and speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature. Topics include appearance of varietal names, differentiation and formation of specific names, six universal categories of ethnobotanical nomenclature, salience of speech, and prestige, social success, and language. The publication elaborates on color categorization in West Futunese; creolization and syntactic change in New Guinea Tok Pisin; relexification processes in Philippine Creole Spanish; and the historical and sociocultural aspects of the distribution of linguistic variants in highland Chiapas, Mexico. The selection is a valuable source of data for language experts and researchers interested in the sociocultural dimensions of language change.
List of Contributors
Preface
Foreword: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change
Introduction: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change
Background
Extension of the Concept of Language
Language Variation
Language Contact Phenomena
Evolution of Language
Autonomy of Code and Style
Future Perspectives
References
Language Evolution and Speech Style
"Elaborated" versus "Restricted" Speech Style
Language Evolution—Linguistic Evidence
Relation of Speech Style and Language Evolution
Conclusion
Notes
References
Speech and Social Prestige in the Belzian Speech Community
Introduction
The Language Situation
The Salience of Speech
Prestige, Social Success, and Language
Summary and Conclusion
References
Language Acquisition and Language Change: Japanese Numerical Classifiers
References
Speculations on the Growth of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature
Introduction
The Six Universal Categories of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature
Reality of Natural Groupings of Organisms
Primacy of Generic Names
Differentiation and Generalization: The Appearance of Specific and Major Life Form Names
Differentiation and the Formation of Specific Names
Rise of Major Life-Form Names
Appearance of Varietal Names
The Problem of Intermediate Taxa
Linguistic Recognition of'Plant'
Ethnozoological Parallels
An Aside Concerning Nomenclatural Devolution
Conclusions
References
Color Categorization in West Futunese: Variability and Change
References
Creolization and Syntactic Change in New Guinea Tok Pisin
Background
Theoretical Issues in Depidginization
Two Syntactic Changes in Progress
Parallels and Generalizations
Notes
References
Recent Relexification Processes in Philippine Creole Spanish
Introduction
Creoles
Philippine Creole Spanish
Recent and Current Lexical Change
Summary
Notes
References
Lexical Expansion within a Closed Systems
Incoining
Calquing
Tonalizing
Reduplicating
Semantic Extension
Notes
References
Finnish in America: A Case Study in Monogenerational Language Change
References
Historical and Sociocultural Aspects of the Distribution of Linguistic Variants in Highland Chiapas, Mexico
The Dialect Survey
Analysis of Data
Historical Development of Tzeltal and Tzotzil
Dialects of Tzotzil
Dialects of Tzeltal
Patterns of Distribution
References
A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John
Methodological Problems
Development of the Writing System
Description of the Writing System
Meaning of the Symbols
Coding of Nonverbal Behavior
Summary and Conclusion
Notes
References
New Insights into the Nature of Language Change Offered by Language Planning
References
Language Creativity and the Psychotherapy Relationship
References
Index
- No. of pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 28, 1977
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483277653
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