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Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change.
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| Published: |
Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
[1977] ©1977 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Language, thought, and culture : advances in the study of cognition
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780121074500 |
| Summary: |
Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change. |
| Item Description: | Summary and Conclusion. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (312 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483277653 1483277658 |
| Index Number: | P142 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Foreword: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change; Chapter 1. Introduction: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change; Background; Extension of the Concept of Language; Language Variation; Language Contact Phenomena; Evolution of Language; Autonomy of Code and Style; Future Perspectives; References; Chapter 2. Language Evolution and Speech Style; ""Elaborated"" versus ""Restricted"" Speech Style; Language Evolution-Linguistic Evidence. Relation of Speech Style and Language EvolutionConclusion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 3. Speech and Social Prestige in the Belizian Speech Community; Introduction; The Language Situation; The Salience of Speech; Prestige, Social Success, and Language; Summary and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4. Language Acquisition and Language Change: Japanese Numeral Classifiers; References; Chapter 5. Speculations on the Grovvth of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature; Introduction; The Six Universal Categories of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature. Reality of Natural Groupings of OrganismsPrimacy of Generic Names; Differentiation and Generalization: The Appearance of Specific and Major Life Form Names; Differentiation and the Formation of Specific Names; Rise of Major Life-Form Names; Appearance of Varietal Names; The Problem of Intermediate Taxa; Linguistic Recognition of 'Plant'; Ethnozoological Parallels; An Aside Concerning Nomenclatural Devolution; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Color Categorization in West Futunese: Variability and Change; References. Chapter 7. Creolization and Syntactic Change in New Guinea Tok PisinBackground; Theoretical Issues in Depidginization; Two Syntactic Changes in Progress; Parallels and Generalizations; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Recent Relexification Processes in Philippine Creole Spanish; Introduction; Creoles; Philippine Creole Spanish; Recent and Current Lexical Change; Summary; Acknowledgment; Notes; References; Chapter 9. Lexical Expansion within a Closed System; Incoining; Calquing; Tonalizing; Reduplicating; Semantic Extension; Notes; References. Chapter 10. Finnish in America: A Case Study in Monogenerational Language ChangeReferences; Chapter 11. Historical and Sociocultural Aspects of the Distribution of Linguistic Variants in Highland Chiapas, Mexico; The Dialect Survey; Analysis of Data; Historical Development of Tzeltal and Tzotzil; Dialects of Tzotzil; Dialects of Tzeltal; Patterns of Distribution; References; Chapter 12. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John; Methodological Problems; Development of the Writing System; Description of the Writing System; Meaning of the Symbols; Coding of Nonverbal Behavior. |