Language evolution : contact, competition and change
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Language evolution : contact, competition and change
Continuum, c2008
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  秋田
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  福島
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  栃木
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  埼玉
  千葉
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  富山
  石川
  福井
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  長野
  岐阜
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  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
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注記
ISBN on t.p. verso of hardback misprinted
Bibliography: p. [313]-336
Includes indexes
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
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: hbk ISBN 9780826493699
内容説明
Languages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, and there is often railing against the decline of the language by public figures. Some languages, such as French and Finnish, have academies to protect them against foreign imports. Yet languages are species-like constructs, which evolve naturally over time. Migration, imperialism, and globalization have blurred boundaries between many of them, producing new ones (such as creoles) and driving some to extinction. This book examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. In a series of chapters, Salikoko Mufwene examines such themes as:natural selection in language. the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution multilingualism and language contact language birth and language death. the emergence of Creoles and Pidgins the varying impacts of colonization and globalization on language vitality.
This comprehensive examination of the organic evolution of language will be essential reading for graduate and senior undergraduate students, and for researchers on the social dynamics of language variation and change, language vitality and death, and even the origins of linguistic diversity.
目次
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1: Population Dynamics and Language Evolution
- 2. Language evolution
- 3. Population movements, contacts, competition, selection, and language evolution
- 4. How population-wide patterns emerge in language evolution
- 5. What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of language?
- 6. Race, racialism, and the study of language evolution in America
- Part 2: Competition, Selection, And the Development of Creoles
- 7. Competition and selection in language evolution
- 8. Transfer and the 'substrate hypothesis' in creolistics
- 9. Grammaticization and the development of creoles
- 10. Multilingualism in linguistic history
- Part 3: Globalization And Language Vitality
- 11. Language birth and death
- 12. Globalization and the myth of killer languages
- 13. Globalization and language vitality in Francophone Africa
- 14. A Case Study: The ecology of Gullah's survival
- Conclusions: The big picture and questions for future research
- Bibliography
- Index.
- 巻冊次
-
: pbk ISBN 9780826493705
内容説明
Languages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, and there is often railing against the 'decline' of the language by public figures. Some languages, such as French and Finnish, have academies to protect them against foreign imports. Yet languages are species-like constructs, which evolve naturally over time. Migration, imperialism, and globalization have blurred boundaries between many of them, producing new ones (such as creoles) and driving some to extinction.This book examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. In a series of chapters, Salikoko Mufwene examines such themes as: natural selection in language; the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution; multilingualism and language contact; language birth and language death; the emergence of Creoles and Pidgins; and the varying impacts of colonization and globalization on language vitality.This comprehensive examination of the organic evolution of language will be essential reading for graduate and senior undergraduate students, and for researchers on the social dynamics of language variation and change, language vitality and death, and even the origins of linguistic diversity.
目次
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1: Population Dynamics and Language Evolution
- 2. Language evolution
- 3. Population movements, contacts, competition, selection, and language evolution
- 4. How population-wide patterns emerge in language evolution
- 5. What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of language?
- 6. Race, racialism, and the study of language evolution in America
- Part 2: Competition, Selection, And the Development of Creoles
- 7. Competition and selection in language evolution
- 8. Transfer and the 'substrate hypothesis' in creolistics
- 9. Grammaticization and the development of creoles
- 10. Multilingualism in linguistic history
- Part 3: Globalization And Language Vitality
- 11. Language birth and death
- 12. Globalization and the myth of killer languages
- 13. Globalization and language vitality in Francophone Africa
- 14. A Case Study: The ecology of Gullah's survival
- Conclusions: The big picture and questions for future research
- Bibliography
- Index.
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