LANGUAGE CHANGE (3)
Progress or Decay?
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Description:
Thisisalucidandup-to-dateoverviewoflanguagechange.Itdiscusseswhereourevidenceaboutlanguagechangecomesfrom,howandwhychangeshappen,andhowlanguagesbeginandend.Itconsidersbothchangeswhichoccurredlongago,andthosecurrentlyinprogress.Itdoesthiswithintheframeworkofonecentralquestion-islanguagechangeasymptomofprogressordecayItconcludesthatlanguageisneitherprogressingnordecaying,butthatanunderstandingofthefactorssurroundingchangeisessentialforanyoneconcernedaboutlanguagealteration.Forthissubstantiallyrevisedthirdedition,JeanAitchisonhasincludedtwonewchaptersonchangeofmeaningandgrammaticalization.SectionsonnewmethodsofreconstructionandongoingchainshiftsinBritainandAmericahavealsobeenaddedaswellasover150newreferences.Theworkremainsnon-technicalinstyleandaccessibletoreaderswithnopreviousknowledgeoflinguistics.
Details:
- Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Series: Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics
- Editions: Subsequent
- Academic Level: Scholarly/Graduate
- Depth (m): 0.019
- Dewey: 420
- Edition: 3
- Height (m): 0.197
- Place Of Publication: Great Britain/British Isles
- Published Date: Sat 1 Jan 2000
- Weight (g): 386
- Width (m): 0.133
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