CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Toward a Social History of American English
This volume of essays, which focuses on the North, is intended as an initial reconnaissance by social historians into the study of the Civil War.
... 6.381 McDonald, Richard R. 3.309 McDonough, Nancy M. 3.310, 6.382 McDowell, John 4.237 McDowell, Tremaine 9.80–82 McEwen, Ruth Estelle 3.311 McFarlane, Paul T. 1.257 McGinnis, James 2.281 McGreevy, John C. 1.481 McGuire, William J.
For what follows, see George Weisz, The Emergence of Modern Universities in France, 1863–1914 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983);Terry Shinn, “The French Science Faculty System, 1808–1914: Institutional Change and Research ...
It is suggested that after the early settlement of North America by the English-speaking settlers, the language of ... Several scholars have shown that what is known as American English today owes a great deal to many of the contact ...
A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women
This elegant book--theoretically precise, empirically robust, and analytically savvy--will become the standard by which all subsequent scholarship on the sociology of immigration will be measured.
This introductory text discusses the development of archaeology in the United States. Rather than presenting archaeology as an unfolding natural process, Professor Patterson discusses the traditional uses of archaeology in...
... English, for instance, it is possible to turn to Richard Werm- ser, Statistische Studiën zur Entwicklung des englischen Wortschatzes (Berlin, 1976), and to Terttu Nevaainen, 'Lexis and Semantics', in Roger Lass (ed.) History of the English ...
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