Written Afrikaans Since Standardization
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Written Afrikaans Since Standardization
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Author : Johanita Kirsten
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-02-14
Written Afrikaans Since Standardization written by Johanita Kirsten and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book examines a century of language change in written Afrikaans since it's standardization in the early twentieth century. It also explores theoretical questions regarding language change, contact induced language change, and external influences on language use.
Constructions In Contact 2
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Author : Hans C. Boas
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Constructions In Contact 2 written by Hans C. Boas and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective.
Constraints On Language Variation And Change In Complex Multilingual Contact Settings
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Author : Bertus van Rooy
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2024-07-15
Constraints On Language Variation And Change In Complex Multilingual Contact Settings written by Bertus van Rooy and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of English, and language use of bilinguals more generally) can be accounted for in a coherent framework grounded in the notion of ‘constrained communication’. These varieties have hitherto been studied in independent scholarly traditions, especially translation studies and world Englishes, leaving the potential underlying unity underexplored, both conceptually and empirically. The chapters collected in this volume aim to develop such a unified perspective by drawing on corpus data across a range of languages and language varieties, with a focus on written language, a neglected data source in research on multilingual contact settings. The findings point to shared general characteristics across individual contact settings, which result from (probabilistically conditioned) manifestations of the same deeper regularities – constraints – present in diverse language-contact settings.
Contemporary African Perspectives On The Bible
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Author : Tobias Marevesa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Contemporary African Perspectives On The Bible written by Tobias Marevesa and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Language Standardization And Language Change
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Author : Ana Deumert
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Language Standardization And Language Change written by Ana Deumert and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Standardization
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Author : Andrew R. Linn
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2002-12-31
Standardization written by Andrew R. Linn and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines. The papers cover a historical range from the Middle Ages to the present and a geographical range from South Africa to Iceland, but all fall into one of the following categories: 1) shaping and diffusing a standard language; 2) the relationship between standard and identity; 3) non-standardization, de-standardization and re-standardization.
Pidgins And Creoles Volume 2 Reference Survey
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Author : John A. Holm
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1988
Pidgins And Creoles Volume 2 Reference Survey written by John A. Holm and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Foreign Language Study categories.
An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.
Linguistic Purism In The Germanic Languages
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Author : Nils Langer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-12-22
Linguistic Purism In The Germanic Languages written by Nils Langer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.
Literary Translation Reception And Transfer
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Author : Norbert Bachleitner
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-09-21
Literary Translation Reception And Transfer written by Norbert Bachleitner and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena; they are based on similarities that are related to a form of ‘travelling’ and imitation or adaptation of entire texts, genres, forms or contents. Transfer comprises all sorts of ‘travelling’, with translation as a major instrument of transferring literature across linguistic and cultural barriers. Transfer aims at the process of communication, starting with the source product and its cultural context and then highlighting the mediation by certain agents and institutions to end up with inclusion in the target culture. Reception lays its focus on the receiving culture, especially on critcism, reading, and interpretation. Translation, therefore, forms a major factor in reception with the general aim of reception studies being to reveal the wide spectrum of interpretations each text offers. Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. The thirty-eight papers included in this volume and dedicated to research in this area were previously read at the ICLA conference 2016 in Vienna. They are ample proof that the field remains at the center of interest in Comparative Literature.
Parameter Theory And Linguistic Change
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Author : Sonia Cyrino
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11
Parameter Theory And Linguistic Change written by Sonia Cyrino and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Leading scholars examine languages ranging from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans. They consider the insights parametric theory offers to understanding the dynamics of language change and test new hypotheses against an extensive array of data. In both the broad range of languages it discusses and its use of linguistic theory this is an outstanding book.