Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages

Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9789027257345
ISBN-13 : 9027257345
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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages by : Lenore A. Grenoble

Download or read book Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages written by Lenore A. Grenoble and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses of Odessan Russian, a southern Russian contact variety with Yiddish and Ukrainian elements, and Russian lexifier pidgins illustrate the reconstruction process, which involves making the most of all available documentation, particularly literature and stereotypical descriptions. Historical sociolinguistics of this kind straddles the fields of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and contact; this book brings together the methods and theories of these areas to show how they can result in a rich reconstruction of linguistic and socially-conditioned variation. We reconstruct the circumstances and social settings that produced this variation, and demonstrate how to reconstruct which variants were used by different types of speakers under different circumstances, and what kinds of social identities they indexed.


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