SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH: A SURVEY

SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH: A SURVEY

The English language has a well-documented history which can be traced back over twelve hundred years. This paper discusses the history of English focussing on the evidence it offers for sociolinguistic inquiry and raising issues to do with the social, historical and empirical validity of the enterp...

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Main Authors: Terttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2005-06-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
Subjects:
historical sociolinguistics
history of English
sociology of language
diglossia
multilingualism
social dialectology
social networks
interactional sociolinguistics
literacy
standardization
Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/47861

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