Sociohistorical linguistics
- Sociohistorical linguistics
Sociohistorical linguistics, or historical sociolinguistics, is the study of the relationship between language and society in its historical dimension. A typical question in this field would, for instance, be: “How were the verb endings "-s" and -"th" ("he loves" vs. "he loveth") distributed in Middle English society” or “When did people use French, when did they use English in 14th-century England?”
State of the Art
The first monograph in sociohistorical linguistics was published by Suzanne Romaine in 1982. The field has become established in linguistics in the 1990's. Since 2000 there has also been an internet journal "Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics". [Nevalainen/Raumolin-Brunberg (1996) provide several introductory chapters on this discipline and a number of case studies. Cf. also Jucker (2000) for an introductory view.]
Methodology
Due to the lack of recordings of oral language, sociohistorical linguistics has to rely exclusively on written corpora.
See also
*historical linguistics
*sociolinguistics
External links
* [http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/hsl_shl/index.html Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics] , an internet journal, edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
References
*Jucker, Andreas H. (2000), "History of English and English Historical Linguistics", Stuttgart: Klett.
*Nevalainen, Terttu / Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena (eds.) (1996), "Sociolinguistics and Language History: Studies Based on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence", Amsterdam: Rodopi.
*Romaine, Suzanne (1982), "Socio-Historical Linguistics: Its Status and Methodology", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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