Historical Sociolinguistics: Origins, Motivations, and Paradigms

Nevalainen, Terttu; Raumolin‐Brunberg, Helena

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“…London is often claimed to be the source of linguistic innovation (Wells 1982;Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg 2003) and yet there had been little, if any, evidence from empirical sociolinguistic studies to substantiate this claim. This study therefore makes an important contribution to the field of sociolinguistics because it is the first to be undertaken in London since Sivertsen's (1960) Cockney Phonology.…”

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“…This work is an attempt to address these issues and to consider what impact they have had on the Cockney dialect. It also addresses the question of whether London is the source of linguistic innovation as it is often claimed to be (Wells 1982, Nevalainen andRaumolin-Brunberg 2003). The remainder of the book will therefore try to answer the following questions: What factors might account for speakers' linguistic innovations?…”

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“…Nevalainen/Raumolin-Brunberg (2012: 29, nach Culpeper/Kytö [2010) unterscheiden Genres historischer Mündlichkeit in "speech-like (e. g. private correspondence), speech-based (e. g. trial proceedings) and speech purposed (e. g. plays)".Grammatischer Wandel im (Mittel-)Neuhochdeutschen…”

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Grammatischer Wandel im (Mittel-)Neuhochdeutschen – von oben und von unten. Perspektiven einer Historischen Soziolinguistik des Deutschen

Elspaß¹

2015

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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The present contribution addresses the phenomenon of grammatical change using a historical sociolinguistic approach, which is based on the principle that systematic language change can only be described and explained by accounting for sociopragmatic and variational factors of language use. The approach is illustrated by an empirical investigation of the change of selected morphological and syntactic features in (Middle) New High German, using Labov's distinction between 'language change from above' and 'language change from below' as a starting point of analysis. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that the historical sociolinguistic approach not only complements other methods of historical linguistics, but may also lead to results and findings that could perhaps not be achieved by other methodological approaches. Moreover, it is considered central to the description and explanation of the development of language varieties in periods of language standardisation.

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“…Romaine's (1982) seminal study revealed stylistic variation across text registers in Middle Scots: formal genres like legal prose evinced greater syntactic complexity than informal genres like letters and narrative prose (1982: 152-157). With respect to diachronic change in early modern English, Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg (2003) examined the social stratification of six changes in progress to ascertain whether they represented changes from above or below (Labov, 1994: 78), and in further work, Nevalainen, Raumolin-Brunberg, and Mannila (2011) identified linguistically innovative and conservative speakers, giving some idea of who led these changes. Other work has focused on regional origins of changes: Lodge (2004: 59-68) examines dialectal isoglosses to identify the regional provenance of nine phonological and morphological variants that ousted local variants in medieval Parisian French.…”

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Socio-stylistic reflexes of syntactic change in Old French

Donaldson

2013

French Language Studies

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ab st rac tThis paper analyses aspects of the loss of verb-second (V2) in Old French in a historical sociolinguistic perspective. Data come from sequences in which a main declarative is preceded immediately by a tensed subordinate clause (Vance, Donaldson, and Steiner, 2010). Following Romaine (1982), represented speech and narrative are considered to represent distinct registers within a single text. An analysis of intra-textual variation between narrative and represented speech reveals stylistic variation, in that represented speech evinces higher rates of surface subjectverb-(object) orders in main clauses than narrative passages within the same text. The data also reveal gender variation, as the represented speech of women tends to be more linguistically conservative than that of men.Variation (University of Texas at San Antonio). All remaining shortcomings are of course my own.

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Historical Sociolinguistics: Origins, Motivations, and Paradigms

Cited by 95 publications

References 37 publications

The New Cockney

The New Cockney

Grammatischer Wandel im (Mittel-)Neuhochdeutschen – von oben und von unten. Perspektiven einer Historischen Soziolinguistik des Deutschen

Socio-stylistic reflexes of syntactic change in Old French

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