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This Handbook answers a long-standing need for an up-to-date, comprehensive, international, in-depth critical survey of the history, trajectory, data, results and key figures involved in sociolinguistics. The result is a work of unprecedented coverage and insight. It is all here, from the foundational contributions to the field to the impact of new media, new technologies of communication, globalization, trans-border fluidities and agendas of research.
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Change: Phonology
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Change: Phonology
16.1 Social Approaches to Language Change
Taking a sociolinguistic approach to the explanation of language change has two consequences. The first is that, with the exception of a growing body of work in historical sociolinguistics (see Nevalainen, this volume), the ...
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