Journal articles: 'Sociohistorical linguistics'

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Dediu, Dan, and Remco Knooihuizen. "Historical Demography and Historical Sociolinguistics: The Role of Migrant Integration in the Development of Dunkirk French in the 17th Century." Language Dynamics and Change 2, no. 1 (2012): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221058212x653067.

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AbstractWidespread minority language shift in Early Modern Europe is often ascribed to restrictive language policies and the migration of both majority- and minority-language speakers. However, without a sociohistorically credible account of the mechanisms through which these events caused a language shift, these policies lack explanatory power. Inspired by research on 'language histories from below,' we present an integrated sociohistorical and linguistic account that can shed light on the procresses taking place during a case of language shift in the 17th and 18th centuries. We present and analyze demographic data on the immigration and integration of French speakers in previously Dutch-speaking Dunkirk in this period, showing how moderate intermarriage of immigrants and locals could have represented a motive and a mechanism for language shift against a backdrop of larger language-political processes. We then discuss the modern language-shift dialect of Dunkirk in comparison with different dialects of French. The linguistic data suggests a large influence from the dialects of migrants, underlining their role in the language shift process. The combination of sociohistorical and linguistic evidence gives us a better understanding of language shift in this period, showing the value of an integrated 'from below' approach.

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Meurman-Solin, Anneli. "Genre as a Variable in Sociohistorical Linguistics." European Journal of English Studies 5, no. 2 (August 2001): 241–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/ejes.5.2.241.7311.

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Bickerton, Derek. "The Sociohistorical Matrix of Creolization." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7, no. 2 (January 1, 1992): 307–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.7.2.05bic.

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MEYERHOFF, MIRIAM. "Linguistic change, sociohistorical context, and theory-building in variationist linguistics: new-dialect formation in New Zealand." English Language and Linguistics 10, no. 1 (May 2006): 173–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674306001833.

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Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Andrea Sudbury, and Peter Trudgill, 2004. New Zealand English: its origins and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 64292 2. Hb £55.00, US$85.00.Peter Trudgill, 2004. New-dialect formation: the inevitability of colonial Englishes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/Georgetown: Georgetown University Press. ISBN 0 7486 1876 7. Hb £45.00.

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Drechsel, Emanuel J. "Indigenous Pidgins of North America in their Sociohistorical Context." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 22, no. 2 (August 25, 1996): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v22i2.1363.

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Parenteau, Julie L. "Book review: Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics: Stories of Colonization and Contact." Journal of Language and Social Psychology 31, no. 2 (April 27, 2012): 229–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927x12438543.

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Ponelis, Fritz A. "CAVEATS AND COMMENTS." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 14, no. 1 (March 2002): 95–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542702046044.

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By way of wrapping up this two-part special issue, Focus on Afrikaans Sociohistorical Linguistics (JGL 13.4 and 14.1), I will touch on some of the significant issues raised by the contributors from my own, mainly dissident, point of view.

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Mesthrie, Rajend. "FOREWORD." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 14, no. 1 (March 2002): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542702046019.

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The papers in the special focus issues of the Journal of Germanic Linguistics (13.4 and 14.1) testify to the continuing significance of Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics. Even before its official “birth,” recognition, and christening, Afrikaans had been the subject of debate, discussion, dissension, and adulation. Within linguistics, it has excited attention from Hesseling onward on account of the transformation of Dutch grammar evident in some facets of its structure and lexicon. The extent of the transformation and the participation of indigenous and enslaved people in the process have proved what my co-editor, Paul Roberge (1995:72), once called an “enduring crux ” in sociohistorical linguistics. With the promotion (and consequent further politicization) of Afrikaans in the apartheid era (1948–1994), the issue of origins became an ideologically polarized one. It seemed to me in the 1980s and 1990s that linguists in South Africa, with a few exceptions, weren't keeping pace with developments in creolistics; and, conversely, scholars versed in creolistics weren't always paying attention to the full span of the data on the transformation of Dutch in South Africa. With the academic boycott of apartheid South Africa, there seemed little opportunity for full, free, and frank scholarly exchange.

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Wilkerson, Miranda E., Mark Livengood, and Joe Salmons. "The Sociohistorical Context of Imposition in Substrate Effects." Journal of English Linguistics 42, no. 4 (September 10, 2014): 284–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424214547963.

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A growing literature directly connects historical demographic patterns to the emergence of new dialects or languages. This article moves beyond the usual macro view of such data, relying on simple numbers of speakers and similar information, to focus on the input to new generations of speakers in a so-called substrate setting. The English now spoken in eastern Wisconsin shows a range of influences from German, and we work to reconstruct the kinds of input that the first large generation of English L1, mostly monolingual English-speaking children in the community,likely received at the level of the household and the individual. Evidence strongly suggests that most children in the community would have been widely exposed to heavily German-influenced English, in part due to a critical moment of shift from German to English as the home language in many households.

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Sabino, Robin, and Emanuel J. Drechsel. "Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin." Language 75, no. 1 (March 1999): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417492.

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Cutillas Espinosa, Juan Antonio, and Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy. "Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 121, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 357–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.51814/nm.103350.

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Corpora of historical correspondence and their social metadata offers a very useful archival source to carry out studies in Historical Sociolinguistics. However, illiteracy among female population and the subsequent use of scribes make authorship and gender constitute some of the most controversial socio-demographic issues when doing sociohistorical research. Letters might not have been autographs but rather dictated to a scribe, which can lead to the distortion of findings concerning authorship and gender-based patterns, from the perspective of sociolinguistic variation. On the other hand, Forensic Linguistics appeared as a branch of Applied Linguistics to assist the law in legal processes, where authorship elucidation is often one of the most disputed questions. In this paper we will present an overview of the main approaches to authorship attribution within Forensic Linguistics and relate them to sociohistorical data in the case of the letters by Margery Paston, putting their theorical tenets and techniques to the test of time. The data suggests that formal (spelling) features are less indicative of authorship than other morphosyntactic markers. Forensic Linguistics and Historical Sociolinguistics can mutually benefit each other, by sharing their expertise in authorship research and its application to current and historical texts in their social context

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Munro, Jennifer, and Ilana Mushin. "Rethinking Australian Aboriginal English-based speech varieties." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31, no. 1 (April 25, 2016): 82–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.31.1.04mun.

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The colonial history of Australia necessitated contact between nineteenth and twentieth century dialects of English and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island languages. This has resulted in the emergence of contact languages, some of which have been identified as creoles (e.g. Sandefur 1979, Shnukal 1983) while others have been hidden under the label of ‘Aboriginal English’, exacerbated by what Young (1997) described as a gap in our knowledge of historical analyses of individual speech varieties. In this paper we provide detailed sociohistorical data on the emergence of a contact language in Woorabinda, an ex-Government Reserve in Queensland. We propose that the data shows that the label ‘Aboriginal English’ previously applied (Alexander 1968) does not accurately identify the language. Here we compare the sociohistorical data for Woorabinda to similar data for both Kriol, a creole spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia and to Bajan, an ‘intermediate creole’ of Barbados, to argue that the language spoken in Woorabinda is most likely also an intermediate creole.

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Clayman, Steven E., and John Heritage. "Conversation Analysis and the Study of Sociohistorical Change." Research on Language and Social Interaction 54, no. 2 (April 3, 2021): 225–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2021.1899717.

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Sessarego, Sandro. "On the non-(de)creolization of Chocó Spanish: A linguistic and sociohistorical account." Lingua 184 (December 2016): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.06.005.

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Šipka, Danko. "Sociocognitive Metalexicographic Parameters Of The First Two Editions Of Srpski Rječnik By Vuk Stefanović Karadžić." Slavica Lodziensia 1 (November 14, 2017): 119–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2544-1795.01.10.

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The present paper approaches two nineteenth-century editions of Serbian Dictionary by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić from a sociocognitive metalexicographic perspective. Using a triangular communicative model of lexicographic work, the author analyzes sociohistorical factors, lexicographic strategies, and lexicographic elements of the aforementioned dictionary. A special attention is devoted to the diff erences between the two editions, which coincide in time with a broader shift from traditional philology toward linguistics.

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Singler, John Victor. "Theories of Creole Genesis, Sociohistorical Considerations, and the Evaluation of Evidence." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11, no. 2 (January 1, 1996): 185–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.11.2.02sin.

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In an early Caribbean colony the conversion from other crops to sugar monoculture utterly transformed the colony's society and arguably its language as well. A comparative quantitative analysis of the populations of Haiti and Martinique makes the case that the initial period of creole genesis on each island extended as much as 50 years beyond the introduction of sugar growing. The reconstruction of the ethnic distribution of the African population brought to the French Caribbean in the late 17th century suggests that speakers of Gbe dialects would have been numerically dominant in Haiti during the first several decades of the sugar era. This fact may seem to lend plausibility to Lefebvre and Lumsden's application of the Relexification Hypothesis, but a number of vexing issues call this hypothesis into question.

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Picone, Michael D. "Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin. Emanuel J. Drechsel." International Journal of American Linguistics 68, no. 4 (October 2002): 483–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/466502.

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Díaz-Campos, Manuel, Juan M. Escalona Torres, and Valentyna Filimonova. "Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World." Annual Review of Linguistics 6, no. 1 (January 14, 2020): 363–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030547.

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This review provides a state-of-the-art overview of Spanish sociolinguistics and discusses several areas, including variationist sociolinguistics, bilingual and immigrant communities, and linguistic ethnography. We acknowledge many recent advances and the abundant research on several classic topics, such as phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics. We also highlight the need for research on understudied phenomena and emphasize the importance of combining both quantitative and ethnographic methodologies in sociolinguistic research. Much research on Spanish has shown that the language's wide variation across the globe is a reflection of Spanish-speaking communities’ rich sociohistorical and demographic diversity. Yet, there are many areas where research is needed, including bilingualism in indigenous communities, access to bilingual education, attitudes toward speakers of indigenous languages, and language maintenance and attrition. Language policy, ideology, and use in the legal and health care systems have also become important topics of sociolinguistics today as they relate to issues of human rights.

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Risco, Anton, and Jose B. Monleon. "A Specter Is Haunting Europe (A Sociohistorical Approach to the Fantastic)." Hispanic Review 61, no. 2 (1993): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/473970.

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Saily, T., T. Nevalainen, and H. Siirtola. "Variation in noun and pronoun frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English." Literary and Linguistic Computing 26, no. 2 (May 6, 2011): 167–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqr004.

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Burkette, Allison. "The use of literary dialect in Uncle Tom's Cabin." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 10, no. 2 (May 1, 2001): 158–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963-9470-20011002-03.

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This article explores Stowe's use of dialect in her controversial novel. Though some critics have mentioned the 'colorful language' of Stowe's characters, most debates about Uncle Tom's Cabin have not centered on the dialect representation in the speech of her characters. This article provides an objective analysis of Stowe's use of literary dialect in the speech of three characters (Aunt Chloe, George and Mr Haley) using the methods of quantitative linguistics. The frequency of occurrence of linguistic features and the distribution of non-standard features among Stowe's characters demonstrates that Stowe was, in several respects, remarkably accurate, both linguistically and historically. Stowe's characters' dialects illustrate an interesting period in the history of American dialect formation. Recent studies in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) and the investigation of its origins have suggested a close relationship between AAVE and Southern White Vernacular English (SWVE) as a result of the sociohistorical context in which AAVE began. This relationship is reflected in the similarities between the speech of Aunt Chloe and Mr Haley and shows Stowe's portrayal of these dialects to be historically accurate. Stowe's linguistic accuracy is evidenced by the fact that each character's use of linguistic features mirrors that of actual speakers, in terms of specific dialect features and their frequency of use, and her distribution of features across social variables matches that found in sociolinguistic research.

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Sessarego, Sandro. "On the non-creole basis for Afro-Bolivian Spanish." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28, no. 2 (August 16, 2013): 363–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.28.2.04ses.

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This article provides a sociohistorical and linguistic account for the development of Afro-Bolivian Spanish (ABS), an Afro-Hispanic vernacular spoken in Los Yungas, Department of La Paz, Bolivia. Previous research has indicated that ABS might be the descendent of an Afro-Hispanic pidgin (Lipski 2008), which first creolized in colonial times and eventually decreolized due to contact with Spanish after the Bolivian Land Reform of 1952. The present study argues that ABS was probably never a creole, but rather a language relatively close to Spanish from its inception. The basis on which this claim is built consists of sociodemographic and linguistic data. The findings strongly indicate that the historical conditions for a creole language to emerge were not in place in Bolivia for the period under analysis (15th–19th century).

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Cornips, Leonie, and Vincent de Rooij. "Katanga Swahili and Heerlen Dutch: A sociohistorical and linguistic comparison of contact varieties in mining regions." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019, no. 258 (August 27, 2019): 35–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2019-2028.

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Abstract This article compares sociolinguistic and structural outcomes of language contact processes in two mining areas on two different continents, namely the Katanga region in the southeast of what is now the DR Congo, Africa and Heerlen as centre of the former Eastern Mine District in the southeastern province of Limburg in the Netherlands, Europe. Several similarities between these two regions make this comparison interesting. Both in Katanga and Heerlen, the natural copper and coal resources were located in border regions that were peripheral to central seats of government. In both regions, the exploitation of these resources, the growth of mining industries and rapid urbanization, began in the same period, the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Despite being located on different continents – Africa and Europe – similar social conditions of language contact were responsible for the genesis of the language varieties underground and above ground. The language contact situations in Limburg and Katanga both resulted in structural innovation of Dutch and Swahili respectively. The most interesting innovation we identify in both cases can be characterized as the regularization of grammatical properties, and the expansion of aspect marking.

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Schreier, Daniel. "Terra incognita in the anglophone world." English World-Wide 23, no. 1 (June 13, 2002): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.23.1.02sch.

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This paper examines the development of a distinct contact-based variety on the island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean. It outlines the sociohistorical context of the community as well as its linguistic and sociolinguistic implications, speculating on the original input varieties and processes of contact dynamics, new-dialect formation as well as feature selection and retention that occurred since the island was colonised in 1816. It provides a structural profile and discusses selected grammatical variables of this variety, with the aim of investigating feature selection from the relevant donor sources and identifying differential evolution patterns that occurred in this particular setting, even though it is not always possible to keep these two questions apart.

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Masuda, Hirokuni. "Tsr Formation as a Discourse Substratum in Hawaii Creole English." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10, no. 2 (January 1, 1995): 253–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.10.2.03mas.

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Hawaii Creole English presents a particular type of utterance structure, the "dollar utterance," which might be regarded as ill-formed in terms of the form-meaning coalition in Standard English (SE). Nonetheless, such an utterance seems to reflect an underlying discourse process in which three discourse representations — Theme, Scheme, Rheme — interact. An analysis is given within the framework of Schema theory to explain this unique linguistic phenomenon in Hawaii Creole English. The scheme, which is the most important entity of the three, resides either in the preceding text or in the abstract knowledge structure of human cognition. It is further claimed that the formation of Theme, Scheme, Rheme could have been transferred from Japanese as one of its substratum features in discourse. The probability of Japanese substratal influence is highly supportable from both linguistic and sociohistorical evidence.

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Drechsel, Emanuel J. "Sociolinguistic-ethnohistorical observations on Maritime Polynesian Pidgin in Herman Melville’s two major semi-autobiographical novels of the Pacific." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22, no. 2 (October 11, 2007): 231–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.22.2.03dre.

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Notwithstanding limited micro-sociolinguistic information on who spoke what, how, when, where, and in what other relevant circumstances, Melville’s two major semi-autobiographical novels of the Pacific, Typee and Omoo, invite an analysis in terms of an ethnohistory of speaking, i.e. the restoration of historical linguistic attestations by triangulation with comparative evidence following philological principles and the critical interpretation of extralinguistic, sociohistorical factors by ethnological criteria. In spite of their Anglophone spellings, Melville’s attestations of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin are reconstitutable by comparative evidence from Polynesian source languages, especially Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Tahitian. These recordings deserve recognition for their accuracy on grounds of their overall structural consistency with independent historical data. While the novelist did not explain how he had obtained these recordings, linguistic contrasts suggest that Hawaiian served as a prime (although not exclusive) source of information in full or pidginized form.

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Walkden, George, and Anne Breitbarth. "Complexity as L2-difficulty: Implications for syntactic change." Theoretical Linguistics 45, no. 3-4 (December 18, 2019): 183–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2019-0012.

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Abstract Recent work has cast doubt on the idea that all languages are equally complex; however, the notion of syntactic complexity remains underexplored. Taking complexity to equate to difficulty of acquisition for late L2 acquirers, we propose an operationalization of syntactic complexity in terms of uninterpretable features. Trudgill’s sociolinguistic typology predicts that sociohistorical situations involving substantial late L2 acquisition should be conducive to simplification, i.e. loss of such features. We sketch a programme for investigating this prediction. In particular, we suggest that the loss of bipartite negation in the history of Low German and other languages indicates that it may be on the right track.

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McWhorter, John. "It Happened at Cormantin." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 59–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.12.1.03mcw.

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Comparative and sociohistorical facts suggest that Sranan arose among castle slaves on the Gold Coast in the 1630s. Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language is an offshoot of early Sranan, which allows the deduction that créole English had developed in Suriname by 1671. However, during the English hegemony there, 1651-1667, Suriname harbored only small plantations, where Whites worked closely with equal numbers of Blacks. Such conditions were unlikely to produce Sranan, and conditions in other English colonies were similar, disallowing them as possible sources of importation. Disproportionate lexical and structural influence from Lower Guinea Coast languages, and other evidence, suggests that the language actually took shape on the West African coast.

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Sessarego, Sandro. "Chocó Spanish double negation and the genesis of the Afro-Hispanic dialects of the Americas." Diachronica 34, no. 2 (July 14, 2017): 219–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.34.2.03ses.

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Abstract Chocó Spanish is an Afro-Hispanic dialect spoken in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia. This variety is characterized by the presence of double-negative constructions (neg2) (i.e., yo no como no “I do not eat”), which have repeatedly been classified in the literature as the contemporary traces of a previous Afro-Portuguese creole stage for this vernacular. The present paper provides linguistic and sociohistorical evidence offering an alternative explanation. In particular, neg2 is analyzed as an archaic morphosyntactic trait which already existed in 15th–19th century Spanish and which has been preserved in Chocó Spanish and other conservative Afro-Hispanic vernaculars of Latin America.

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Milic, Louis T. "Sociohistorical linguistics - Carey McIntosh, Common and courtly language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 167." Language in Society 17, no. 4 (December 1988): 585–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500013130.

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Atkinson, Dwight. "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675–1975: A sociohistorical discourse analysis." Language in Society 25, no. 3 (September 1996): 333–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500019205.

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ABSTRACTThis study traces the evolution of scientific research writing in English from 1675 to 1975. Two separate methods of discourse analysis – rhetorical analysis focusing on broad genre characteristics, and sociolinguistic register analysis – are applied to a large corpus of articles from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. The two sets of results are then interpreted vis-à-vis the Royal Society's social history to yield an integrated description. Findings indicate that: (a) research writing in the 17th – 18th centuries was substantially influenced by communicative norms of author-centered genteel conduct; (b) greater attention to methodology and precision in the interest of scientific specialization brought about pronounced textual changes in the 19th century, although gentlemanly norms were still in evidence; and (c) by the late 20th century, expanded theoretical description/discussions appear to have replaced experiments and methods as the rhetorical centerpiece of the research article. (Discourse analysis, rhetorical analysis, register, social studies of science, scientific writing, corpus linguistics)

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Sessarego, Sandro. "Afro-Peruvian Spanish in the context of Spanish Creole Genesis." Spanish in Context 11, no. 3 (December 8, 2014): 381–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.11.3.04ses.

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This study presents linguistic and sociohistorical data on Afro-Peruvian Spanish (APS), an Afro-Hispanic dialect spoken in the province of Chincha (coastal Peru) by the descendants of the slaves taken to this region to work on sugarcane plantations in the seventeenth century. The present work provides new information on the origin of APS. In so doing, it casts new light on the genesis and evolution of Afro-Hispanic languages in the Americas and shows that, in light of recent works on the nature of Venezuelan, Ecuadorian and Bolivian slavery (Díaz-Campos & Clements 2008; Sessarego 2013a, 2014), colonial coastal Peru did not represent a “canonical breeding ground” (McWhorter 2000,7) for a creole language to form.

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Fernández, Mauro, and Eeva Sippola. "A new window into the history of Chabacano." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32, no. 2 (December 4, 2017): 304–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.32.2.04fer.

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Theories about the origin of the Spanish-lexified creoles of the Philippines known as Chabacano have been based on scarce historical samples. This article presents two early Chabacano texts that are more than twenty years older than the ones that have been available so far: ‘La Buyera’, from 1859, and ‘Juancho’, from 1860. Based on a comparison with historical and contemporary sources pertaining to Philippine-Spanish contact varieties, the texts are placed in their linguistic and sociohistorical context. A linguistic analysis of the texts reveals a clear pattern of creole features and suggests that there was probably sociolinguistically motivated variation in different settings where the Chabacano varieties emerged. The results of the analysis confirm that Chabacano existed as a crystallized variety by at least the mid-19th century and was not restricted to interactions between servants and Spanish-speaking masters or to commercial contexts. Rather, it was already a language used for social and intimate relations and daily interactions in diverse neighborhoods of Manila.

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Terkourafi, Marina. "Understanding the present through the past." Diachronica 22, no. 2 (December 7, 2005): 309–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.22.2.04ter.

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Studies of Greek as spoken today in Cyprus draw attention to a generalised variety of Cypriot Greek, free from local variation within the island, yet diverging in several ways from the standard spoken on the mainland. In this article, I attempt first to classify this variety, examining whether it exhibits structural and sociohistorical characteristics of koinés. Having established today's generalised Cypriot variety as a koiné, I then trace its evolution, arguing that an early koiné already came into existence in the late 14th c., playing an important role in the formation of both the modern Cypriot dialect and today's koiné.

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Karatsareas, Petros. "Linguistic (il)legitimacy in Migration Encounters." Languages 6, no. 2 (April 2, 2021): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages6020066.

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Linguistic differences between groups of co-ethnic and/or co-national migrants in diasporic contexts can become grounds for constructing and displaying identities that distinguish (groups of) migrants on the basis of differences in the sociohistorical circumstances of migration (provenance, time of migration) and/or social factors such as class, socioeconomic status, or level of education. In this article, I explore how language became a source of ideological conflict between Greek Cypriot and Greek migrants in the context of a complementary school in north London. Analysing a set of semi-structured interviews with teachers, which were undertaken in 2018 as part of an ethnographically oriented project on language ideologies in Greek complementary schools, I show that Greek pupils and parents, who had migrated to the UK after 2010 pushed by the government-debt crisis in Greece, positioned themselves as linguistic authorities and developed discourses that delegitimised the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Greek Cypriot migrants. Their interventions centred around the use of Cypriot Greek and English features, drawn from the linguistic resources that did not conform with the expectations that “new” Greek migrants held about complementary schools and which were based on strictly monolingual and monodialectal language ideologies. To these, teachers responded with counter-discourses that re-valued contested practices as products of different linguistic repertoires that were shaped by different life courses and trajectories of linguistic resources acquisition.

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Beal, Joan C. "Sociohistorical Linguistics - K. C. Phillips, Language and class in Victorian England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. viii + 190." Language in Society 17, no. 1 (March 1988): 133–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500012677.

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McBride, Christopher. "A collocational approach to semantic change: the case of worship and honour in Malory and Spenser." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 7, no. 1 (February 1998): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394709800700101.

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The word worship, which in Late Middle English named an obligation-related social value, had by early modem times been largely replaced with honour. This article uses collocational data from two literary texts - Malory's Works and Spenser's The Faerie Queene - to propose an explanation for this change. Patterns of lexical connection for worship and honour support their respective assignment to two different social paradigms, status and contract. The different semantic categories which are present in the collocational data suggest that the change from worship to honour may be part of a larger rearrangement of the vocabulary of obligation in the period, caused by the contemporary shift of dominant social paradigm from status to contract. A sociohistorical analogue to the linguistic case is also presented.

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Kliger, Hannah, and Rakhmiel Peltz. "The secular Yiddish school in the United States in sociohistorical perspective: Language school or culture school?" Linguistics and Education 2, no. 1 (January 1990): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0898-5898(05)80008-7.

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Rubiales Bonilla, Lourdes. "Franceses y españoles en el Cádiz de 1700 a través de Voyages du P. Labat des FF. Prescheurs en Espagne et en Italie." Çédille, no. 20 (2021): 431–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.cedille.2021.20.21.

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"Our point of departure shall be the volume in which Jean-Baptiste Labat (1663-1738) devotes to his stay in Spain in Voyages du P. Labat des FF. Prescheurs en Espagne et en Italie (1730a). In this light, our paper shall explore some biographical, sociohistorical and literary clues in order to understand the author’s relationship with Spain as well as the representation of the relationships between Spanish and French communities in his account. With a focus on what unites rather than on what separates both communities, our purpose is to highlight the elements interfering with the apparently stable opposition between «We» and «They» in Labat’s discourse."

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Masuda, Hirokuni. "Verse Analysis and the Nature of Creole Discourse." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14, no. 2 (December 31, 1999): 285–337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.14.2.03mas.

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This research applies Verse Analysis to the study of creole languages seeking evidence to support the two principal theories: universalist and sub-stratist theories. Evidence is presented from Hawaii Creole English (HCE), Guyanese Creole, and Japanese. HCE manifests in discourse a possibly universal feature of patterning (i.e., hierarchical grammatico-semantic recurrence), which is shared by Guyanese Creole as well as Chinook Jargon and quite a few Native American languages. On the other hand, HCE also shows an idiosyncratic phenomenon of numbering (i.e., doublets, triplets, quadruplets, etc., in lines and verses), which appears to have been linguistically transferred from Japanese as a substratum. Linguistic data, sociohistorical facts, and a scenario of substratum transfer are presented. This research reinforces a hypothesis that both internal innate properties and external substratal factors need to be taken into account to explain the origin of creole discourse grammar.

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Lehto, Anu. "Complexity in national legislation of the Early Modern English period." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11, no. 2 (June 18, 2010): 277–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.11.2.05leh.

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This paper concentrates on Early Modern English statutes printed in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The study considers the development of complexity and the rise of modern writing conventions by following the diachronic pragmatic view. The analysis also draws on genre studies and underlines the sociohistorical impact on linguistic changes. Complexity is assessed by a systematic method that observes the textual structure and syntax. The material consists of legislative documents in Early English Books Online; six of the documents were transcribed and compiled into a small-scale corpus. The results indicate that complexity was a common feature in the Early Modern English period: coordination and subordination are frequently used, and the sixteenth-century documents have an increasing tendency to favour subordination. During the sixteenth century, legislative sentences and text type structure become more regular and correspond to present-day practices.

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Seoane, Elena. "On the conventionalisation and loss of pragmatic function of the passive in Late Modern English scientific discourse." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14, no. 1 (March 4, 2013): 70–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.14.1.03seo.

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This paper seeks to explain the radical decrease in the use of the passive voice in Present-day English scientific discourse. A number of different linguistic factors having been discounted in previous research, it is hypothesised here that passives are being omitted for two reasons. Firstly, they became conventionalised in scientific discourse and subsequently lost the pragmatic function which originally justified their high frequency in scientific texts. Secondly, over the course of the twentieth century two sociocultural circumstances converge that exert pressure on conventionalised passives to disappear, namely (i) the increasing competitiveness in the scientific community, and (ii) the democratisation of discourse. This hypothesis is tested in the present paper by analysing the function of passives in scientific discourse before the drop in frequency began, that is, in Late Modern English (1700–1900). With data from ARCHER and other sources I will try to show that passives in Late Modern scientific English exemplify the conventionalisation and loss of contextual function of pragmatic strategies, a scenario that, given the right sociohistorical conditions, leads to linguistic change.

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Downes, William. "The language of felt experience: emotional, evaluative and intuitive." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 9, no. 2 (May 2000): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394700000900201.

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The problem analysed is how the phenomenology of feelings is linguistically expressed as opposed to simply reported. Three kinds of felt experience are distinguished: emotion and evaluation, which are classed as affect, and intuition, which is the compulsive sense of a non-propositional ‘meaning’. It is argued that these are extra-linguistic semiotic or cognitive systems. Emotions are construals of bodily arousal; evaluations are construals of experiences on scales from positive to negative; and intuitions are construals of properties of language itself. These are said to be sociohistorical. Higher level discourse and lexical resources for expressing affect are presented. Then, drawing from Halliday, Labov, Martin and Lemke, it is suggested that felt experiences are expressed iconically, but either concretely or abstractly. The iconicity is on the dimensions of intensity and prosody, and also intertwines different types of experience. Any linguistic feature that can express this iconicity can be deployed; for example, gradability. Five classes of linguistic realization are discussed. These are exemplified through the analysis of a passage of religious writing, Julian of Norwich’s Showings. The importance of analysing texts as linguistic expressions of complex felt experiences is suggested.

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Abbas, Randa Khair, and Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum. "Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic." Pragmatics and Society 12, no. 4 (October 29, 2021): 591–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.18056.abb.

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Abstract The present study examines the extent to which sociohistorical and political contexts influence the language attitudes of Israeli-Druze students to Hebrew as L2 and to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in Arabic-speaking schools. It is a pioneer explorative research study that compares students’ attitudes toward diglossia and L2. Using the Foreign Languages Attitudes and Goals Survey (FLAGS), the attitudes of second, fifth, and ninth graders in two different Druze schools were assessed. The results indicate a positive attitude towards L2 Hebrew, not only for instrumental purposes but also for integration into Israel’s multicultural society. The positive attitude to L2 Hebrew is greater in older students, while the attitude to MSA becomes more negative among older students. Their low motivation to learn cultural heritage MSA may contribute to an understanding of how to teach it better or differently, as well as how to encourage future generations to learn it.

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Schrott, Angela. "¿Quí los podrié contar? Interrogative acts in the Cantar de mio Cid." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1, no. 2 (August 30, 2000): 263–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.1.2.06sch.

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The study of interrogative acts in the Old Spanish Cantar de mio Cid is based on the premise that speech acts not only have to be located in the context of dialogue interaction but also in the frame of the traditions that mark the (literary) text. Because of this context dependency the pragmatic profile of interrogative acts has to be worked out by means of close philological interpretations. After sketching some methodological premises and a definition of the interrogative act, two question types are described in detail: the rhetorical question and a phatic use of the where-question. The analysis illustrates how the interrogative power of questions is shaped by the dialogue context and demonstrates the impact of text traditions like narrative techniques. Thus, the twofold contextualization of the interrogative acts shows the need for an interdisciplinary analysis that integrates sociohistorical considerations as well as literary reflections.

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Doty, Kathleen L., and Risto Hiltunen. "“I will tell, I will tell”." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3, no. 2 (June 3, 2002): 299–335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.3.2.07dot.

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This study focuses on the records of confessions by individuals accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692, both those presented in direct discourse and in reported discourse. We analyze the material from two viewpoints: the pragmatic features of the discourse and narrative structure and function. The data consists of 29 individual records, with eight cases selected for closer scrutiny. The records span the period from March through September 1692. In the pragmatic analysis we study the question and answer patterns from the point of view of the examiners and the accused. The analysis of narrative patterns is based on Labov’s work in oral narratives. It provides a multilayered approach to understanding both the structure of the confessions and the spread of the witchcraft hysteria in Salem. The categories of orientation and complicating action reveal that each confession presents a vivid representation of the devil, the accused, and the sociohistorical context.

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Muthiah, Kalaivahni. "Performing Bombay and displaying stances." English World-Wide 33, no. 3 (October 29, 2012): 264–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.33.3.02mut.

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This article examines novel characters’ use of creatively manufactured language in scripted dialogue, namely stylized Indian English (IndE) in Mistry’s 2002 novel, Family Matters. Broadly, stylized IndE speech contributes to the characters’ performance of localness, an evaluation that reviewers’ commentary of the novel corroborate. However, by drawing on Ochs’ model of direct and indirect indexicality to analyze the contextualized interactions of three groups of characters — Malpani, Shiv Sena drunk men, and Shiv Sena officers — I suggest that the characters more specifically combine stylized IndE features in different ways to display distinct stances. When assessed together with 1) sociohistorical details, 2) interlocutors’ comments, and 3) narratorial interruptions, such stylized IndE speech indirectly indexes and shapes their nuanced social roles in the novel as different types of villains. Stylized IndE features are thus indeterminate resources, braided together with other semiotic resources, and enabling the characters to perform fluid, contextually situated meanings.

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Taavitsainen, Irma. "Medical book reviews 1665–1800." Historical Pragmatics today 22, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 245–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00055.taa.

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Abstract This article traces medical book reviews up to 1800 in the first scientific periodical, The Philosophical Transactions (pt 1665–), and the first general magazine, The Gentleman’s Magazine (gm 1665–1922), within the frame of genre theory, focusing on polite and impolite speech acts. pt readers formed a close network of Royal Society members, while gm attracted a large and more heterogeneous readership. The method employed is qualitative discourse analysis in its sociohistorical context. Two different lines of development emerge. The first issue of pt contains a book review that set a model genre script by surveying the contents and providing a concise positive evaluation at the end. gm published few book reviews at first but their number increased towards 1800. pt keeps to the positive end of evaluation with discreet criticism, while gm speech acts range from praising compliments to aggressive insults. The former trend goes back to book advertisements and the latter to scientific disputes; but in general, polite society conventions prevail in both publications.

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Rickford, John R., and Jerome S. Handler. "Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9, no. 2 (January 1, 1994): 221–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.9.2.02ric.

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On the evidence of textual attestations from 1676-1835, early Barbadian English is shown to have exhibited many more nonstandard features than is generally recognized. Such features, which are commonly, if not exclusively, found in pidgins and creoles, include vowel epenthesis, paragoge and initial s-deletion processes, creole tense-modality-aspect marking, copula absence, the use of invariant no as a preverbal negative and as an emphatic positive marker, the occurrence of one as indefinite article, and a variety of morphologically unmarked pronominal forms. The texts consist of samples of African and Afro-Barbadian speech from historical sources, including ones which linguists have not previously considered. The textual samples are examined century by century, accompanied by a detailed account of the contemporary sociohistorical setting, and interpreted in terms of known and inferred Caribbean patterns of sociolinguistic variation, both in the present and in the past. It is concluded that while early Barbadian speech comprised a range of varieties, creolelike varieties were undoubtedly a part of that range.

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Liu, Benjamin. "“Un Pueblo Laborioso”: Mudejar Work in the Cantigas." Medieval Encounters 12, no. 3 (2006): 462–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006706779166002.

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AbstractThis essay analyzes the idea of “work” as a site of convergence between two meanings of the term mudejar: the sociohistorical, in which the Mudejar is a tax-paying minority Muslim under Christian rule, and the aestheticist, in which mudejar describes a style of architectural and artisanal craftsmanship. Both senses—minority labor as taxable production and as cultural product—are studied in the poetic and social contexts of medieval Spanish poetry, with specific attention to thirteenth-century Galician-Portuguese poetry. The essay concludes by identifying a shift, described in terms articulated by Pierre Bourdieu, in the economic relations between Christians and Muslims, from that primarily viewed as an interpersonal social relation to a material relation expressed as goods and capital.

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