Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change
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Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change

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Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change

About this book

Sociocultural 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.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780121074500
eBook ISBN
9781483277653
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Foreword: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change
  8. Chapter 1. Introduction: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change
  9. Chapter 2. Language Evolution and Speech Style
  10. Chapter 3. Speech and Social Prestige in the Belizian Speech Community
  11. Chapter 4. Language Acquisition and Language Change: Japanese Numeral Classifiers
  12. Chapter 5. Speculations on the Grovvth of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature
  13. Chapter 6. Color Categorization in West Futunese: Variability and Change
  14. Chapter 7. Creolization and Syntactic Change in New Guinea Tok Pisin
  15. Chapter 8. Recent Relexification Processes in Philippine Creole Spanish
  16. Chapter 9. Lexical Expansion within a Closed System
  17. Chapter 10. Finnish in America: A Case Study in Monogenerational Language Change
  18. Chapter 11. Historical and Sociocultural Aspects of the Distribution of Linguistic Variants in Highland Chiapas, Mexico
  19. Chapter 12. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John
  20. Chapter 13. New Insights into the Nature of Language Change Offered by Language Planning
  21. Chapter 14. Language Creativity and the Psychotherapy Relationship
  22. Index