Principles of Linguistic Change
Volume III: Cognitive and Cultural Factors
Language in Society
1. Auflage Oktober 2010
448 Seiten, Softcover
Lehrbuch
Kurzbeschreibung
This third 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 looks deeply into questions of linguistic change, focusing on the cognitive factors, and exploring social influences in the development of large-scale cultural patterns. Written by the pioneering researcher of sociolinguistic inquiry, this is an essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in the field.
Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.
* Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large scale
* Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible for linguistic change
* Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from one another
* Establishes an essential distinction between transmission within the community and diffusion across communities
* Completes Labov's seminal Principles of Linguistic Change trilogy
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.
