2nd Edition
Historical Sociolinguistics Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
List of figures
List of tables
1. Introduction: issues in historical sociolinguistics
2. Sociolinguistic paradigms and language change
3. Primary data: background and informants
4. Real time
5. Apparent time
6. Gender
7. Social stratification
8. Regional variation
9. Historical patterning of sociolinguistic variation
10. Language change and the individual
11. Language change: transmission and diffusion
12. Conclusion
Appendix I: Methodology: how to count occurrences?
Appendix II: Numerical information
Appendix III: The letter collections
References
Author index
Subject index
Biography
Terttu Nevalainen is Professor of English Philology and Director of the VARIENG Research Unit in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki.
Helena Raumolin-Brunberg was formerly a Senior Researcher in the Department of English, University of Helsinki.
"This revised edition of Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England testifies to the vivid interest in this interdisciplinary discipline by bringing in newly developed methodologies and approaches. Like in the first edition, empirical and illustrative case studies together with stimulating and enlightening research make this book a classic and an indispensable work for everyone interested in the whys and wherefores of sociolinguistic variation from a historical perspective."
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, University of Vigo, Spain and University of Manchester, UK
