LINGUIST List 17.133

Mon Jan 16 2006

Books: Historical Ling/Sociolinguistics: Singh, Jones

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Directory         1.    Lauren McGraw, Exploring Language Change: Singh, Jones

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Message 1: Exploring Language Change: Singh, Jones
Date: 12-Jan-2006
From: Lauren McGraw <Lauren.McGrawtaylorandfrancis.com>
Subject: Exploring Language Change: Singh, Jones


Title: Exploring Language Change Published: 2006 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
                http://www.routledge.com/

Author: Ishtla Singh, University of Cambridge Author: Mari Jones, University of Cambridge Hardback: ISBN: 0415317746 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 105.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0415317754 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 31.95
Abstract:

This book explores the phenomenon of language change, with a particularfocus on the social contexts of its occurrence and its possiblemotivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes.

Using wide-ranging case studies presenting new or little-known data, Jonesand Singh draw a distinction between 'unconscious' and 'deliberate' change.The discussion on 'unconscious' change considers phenomena such as theemergence and obsolescence of individual languages, while the book alsoincludes detailed discussion on 'deliberate' change, traditionallymarginalised in favour of explorations of the 'unconscious' variety. Thesections 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 mostextreme instance of 'deliberate' change; language invention for real-worlduse.

As a student-friendly text which covers a wide variety of languagesituations, it also makes a clear, but often ignored, distinction betweenconcepts such as language policy and planning, and language revival andrevitalisation, and the innovative case studies which permeate the textdemonstrate that real-life language use is often much more complex thantheoretical abstractions might suggest.

This book will be extremely useful to students on a variety of coursesincluding sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and language policy andplanning.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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