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Exploring Language Change (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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Exploring Language Change (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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This book explores the phenomenon of language change, with a
particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and its
possible motivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes.
Using wide-ranging case studies presenting new or little-known
data, Jones and Singh draw a distinction between "unconscious" and
"deliberate" change. The discussion on "unconscious" change
considers phenomena such as the emergence and obsolescence of
individual languages, while the book also includes detailed
discussion on "deliberate" change, traditionally marginalised in
favour of explorations of the "unconscious" variety. The sections
on "deliberate" change focus on issues of language planning,
including the strategies of language revival and revitalisation
movements, and also include a detailed exploration of what is
arguably the most extreme instance of "deliberate" change; language
invention for real-world use.
As a student-friendly text which covers a wide variety of language
situations, it also makes a clear, but often ignored, distinction
between concepts such as language policy and planning, and language
revival and revitalisation, and the innovative case studies which
permeate the text demonstrate that real-life language use is often
much more complex than theoretical abstractions might suggest.
This book will be extremely useful to students on a variety of
courses including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and
language policy and planning.
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