Sociolinguistic typology : social determinants of linguistic complexity

著者

• Trudgill, Peter

書誌事項

Sociolinguistic typology : social determinants of linguistic complexity

Peter Trudgill

（Oxford linguistics）

Oxford University Press, 2011

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-223) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Peter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and compares languages and dialects spoken across the globe, from Vietnam to Nigeria, Polynesia to Scandinavia, and from Canada to Amazonia. Modesty prevents Pennsylvanian Dutch Mennonites using the verb wotte ('want'); stratified society lies behind complicated Japanese honorifics; and a mountainous homeland suggests why speakers of Tibetan-Burmese Lahu have words for up there and down there. But culture and environment don't explain why Amazonian Jarawara needs three past tenses, nor why Nigerian Igbo can make do with eight adjectives, nor why most languages spoken in high altitudes do not exhibit an array of spatial demonstratives. Nor do they account for some languages changing faster than others or why some get more complex while others get simpler. The author looks at these and many other puzzles, exploring the social, linguistic, and other factors that might explain them and in the context of a huge range of languages and societies. Peter Trudgill writes readably, accessibly, and congenially. His book is jargon-free, informed by acute observation, and enlivened by argument: it will appeal to everyone with an interest in the interactions of language with culture, environment, and society.

目次

• Prologue: Social Correlates of Linguistic Structures
• 1. Sociolinguistic Typology and the Speed of Change
• 2. Complexification, Simplification, and Two Types of Contact
• 3. Isolation and Complexification
• 4. Mechanisms of Complexification
• 5. Contact and Isolation in Phonology
• 6. Mature Phenomena and Societies of Intimates
• Epilogue: On the Future of Linguistic Complexity
• Bibliography
• Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB07284891
• ISBN:
  • 9780199604357
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: xxxviii, 236 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC22 : 306.44
  • NDC9 : 801.03
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA41351983