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Studies in the History of the English Language III - Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (Hardcover)
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Studies in the History of the English Language III - Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for
conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet
amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of
language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the
English language contribute to the overall perspective that an
elaboration of linguistic, cultural, and social contexts and a
renewed emphasis on the concrete historical conditions of language
change are necessary to approach some long-standing obstacles in
the study of the history of the English language. Designed for
students, teachers, and scholars of the English language, Managing
Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (SHEL III)
presents studies on all periods of the English language in a
variety of theoretical and methodological modes. Highlights include
Anatoly Liberman's sweeping comparative revision of the history of
palatalized and velarized consonants in English; William
Kretzschmar's (et al.) wittily illuminating study of a suburban
Atlanta, Georgia town that epitomizes the specific ways in which
inter-regional linguistic variation can be maintained while local
social factors drive dramatic change on an intra-regional level;
Lesley Milroy's innovative analysis of recent unitary changes in
global Englishes that cannot be accounted for by classic Labovian
models that situate language change within small, close networks of
speakers who mediate variation in face-to-face interactions, an
observation that leads Milroy to propose two distinct but
cross-influencing levels of social dynamics in language change. All
of the essays of this volume include careful critiques of the
construction of our present understanding of the history of
English, thus marking the path behind while shining a light on the
way ahead for the future of the discipline.
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