Past, Present and Future of a Language Border: Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries

ISBN-13: 9781614515838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 330 str.

Peersman, Catharina

Opis

This series creates a space for innovative scholarship examining the ways language functions as a powerful meaning-making resource for constructing identities, managing relationships and building communities. Grounded in new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, and engaging a diverse range of communicative and textual practices, the series embraces work from variationist sociolinguistics through to discourse studies, linguistic anthropology and social semiotics. Monographs and edited volumes are welcomed, as is any work that explicitly situates language in its political, economic and cultural contexts, and/or intersects with other modes of communication such as visual images, material culture, space/place, and nonverbal communication.

Recenzje

"This volume is sure to be of the utmost interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and, of course, historical sociolinguistics, as well as to people working on the history of Dutch, French, Luxembourgish or German. The insightful collection of articles makes a substantial contribution to sociolinguistic theory, due to the broad scope of high-quality work included, and the excellent epilogue that provides a succinct summary of how historical data can shed new light on our understanding of language contact, language conflict and language borders."
James Hawkey in: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 4.2 (2018), 295-298

O autorze

Catharina Peersman, University of Sheffield, UK; Gijsbert Rutten, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.