《The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics》是2012年3月出版的圖書，作者是Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel、 Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo。
基本介紹
- 外文名：The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
- 作者：Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel、 Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo
- 出版時間：2012年3月
- ISBN：9781405190688
內容簡介
Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field.* Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguistics* Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developments* Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies* Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables; historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and attitudes to language
