Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape Dutch - Rilegato

Deumert, Ana

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1588114929 ISBN 13: 9781588114921

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 2004

Riassunto

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1588114929
• ISBN 13: 9781588114921
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 354