LINGUIST List 21.4716 Tue Nov 23 2010 Books: Anthropological Linguistics/Sociolinguistics: Labov Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Katherine Ward , Principles of Linguistic Change: Labov Message 1: Principles of Linguistic Change: Labov Date: 25-Oct-2010 From: Katherine Ward <kwardwiley.com> Subject: Principles of Linguistic Change: Labov E-mail this message to a friend Title: Principles of Linguistic Change Subtitle: Volume III, Cognitive and Cultural Factors Series Title: Language in Society Published: 2010 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell                 http://www.wiley.com Book URL: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140511214X.html Author: William Labov Hardback: ISBN: 9781405112154 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 99.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9781405112147 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 44.95 Abstract: This third and final volume of the Principles of Linguistic Change set examines the cognitive and cultural causes responsible for linguistic change, and traces the history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. Labov draws upon the newly-completed Atlas of North American English to look more deeply into questions of linguistic change, focusing on the cognitive factors that determine the capacity of the linguistic system to transmit information, and exploring social influences in the development of large-scale cultural patterns. The third volume also deals with the diffusion of change across dialect boundaries, and across racial and ethnic groups. It establishes an essential distinction between transmission within the community, which is dependent on child language acquisition and diffusion across communities, which is dependent on adult learning. This final installment in the Principles of Linguistic Change series builds upon the foundations established by the groundbreaking first two volumes. Volume I (978-0-631-17914-6) investigates the internal factors that control change, examining the regularity of sound change and reviewing the evidence for functional explanations of linguistic change. Volume II (978-0-631-17916-0) follows by presenting the social factors governing linguistic change and proposed models for the transmission and incrementation of change. Written by the pioneering researcher of sociolinguistic inquiry, Principles of Linguistic Change is an essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in the field. Table of Contents: Forward. Chapter 1. Cognitive and cultural factors in linguistic change. Part A. Cross dialectal comprehension. Chapter 2. Natural misunderstandings. Chapter 3. A controlled experiment on vowel identification. Chapter 4. The gating experiments. Part B. The life history of linguistic change. Chapter 5. Triggering events. Chapter 6. Governing principles. Chapter 7. Forks in the road. Chapter 8. Divergence. Chapter 9. Driving forces. Chapter 10. Yankee cultural imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift. Chapter 11. Social evaluation of the Northern Cities Shift. Chapter 12. Endpoints. Part C. The unit of linguistic change. Chapter 13. Words floating on the surface of sound change. Chapter 14. The binding force in linguistic change. Part D. Transmission and diffusion. Chapter 15 The diffusion of language from place to place. Chapter 16. The diffusion of language from group to group. Chapter 17. Conclusion. 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