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THE HANDBOOK OF LANGUAGE CONTACT
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| By: |
Raymond Hickey (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£176.40 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444318160 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444318166 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
14 May, 2012 |
| Series: |
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics |
| Pages: |
888 |
| Synopsis: |
The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interactBrings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholarsExamines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the worldAccessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and societyExplores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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