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Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan Da Cunha English

Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan Da Cunha English

Schreier, D.

Paperback

Series: Palgrave Studies in Language Variation

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1349509248
ISBN13: 9781349509249
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jan 1 2003
Pages: 237
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a permanent population, Tristan da Cunha. It documents the historical formation of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation. It also uncovers the linguistic consequences of post-insularity - language change processes as a result of increasing contacts with other communities and speakers. Researchers and students of language variation will find this book a unique resource.

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