Pädagogik und Kontaktlinguistik Education and Contact Linguistics Pédagogie et linguistique de contact

AbstractThis issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics aims to contribute to our understanding of language change in real time by presenting a group of articles particularly focused on social and sociocultural factors underlying language diversification and change. By analysing data from a varied set of languages, including Greek, English, and the Finnic and Mongolic language families, and mainly focussing their investigation on the Middle Ages, the authors connect various social and cultural factors with the specific topic of the issue, the rate of linguistic change. The sociolinguistic themes addressed include community and population size, conflict and conquest, migration and mobility, bi- and multilingualism, diglossia and standardization. In this introduction, the field of comparative historical sociolinguistics is considered a cross-disciplinary enterprise with a sociolinguistic agenda at the crossroads of contact linguistics, historical comparative linguistics and linguistic typology.

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Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico

Studia universitatis hereditati znanstvena revija za raziskave in teorijo kulturne dediščine ◽

10.26493/2350-5443.8(2)11-21 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 11-21

Author(s):

Mila Samardžić

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Literary Language ◽

Italian Language ◽

Contact Linguistics ◽

Languages In Contact ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Middle Ages

Languages in contact: a case of linguistic prestige The article aims to offer a review of the influences exerted by the Italian language (and the Venetian dialect) on the Serbian literary language as well as on the local dialects. These impacts date back to the Middle Ages and, in practice uninterruptedly, persist to the present day. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how, due to socio-economic and cultural circumstances, Italian has been able to establish itself as a prestigious language compared to Serbian and how the relationship between the two languages over the centuries has always been essentially monodirectional. Key words: Language loans, Contact Linguistics, Italian, Serbian, Linguistic Prestige

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Usage-Based Contact Linguistics: Effects of Frequency and Similarity in Language Contact

Journal of Language Contact ◽

10.1163/19552629-13030009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 459-481

Author(s):

Nikolay Hakimov ◽

Ad Backus

Keyword(s):

Language Contact ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Special Issue ◽

Linguistic Change ◽

Contact Linguistics ◽

Usage Frequency ◽

Introductory Article ◽

Individual Contributions ◽

The Individual ◽

Linguistic Behavior

Abstract The influence of usage frequency, and particularly of linguistic similarity on human linguistic behavior and linguistic change in situations of language contact are well documented in contact linguistics literature. However, a theoretical framework capable of unifying the various explanations, which are usually couched in either structuralist, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic parlance, is still lacking. In this introductory article we argue that a usage-based approach to language organization and linguistic behavior suits this purpose well and that the study of language contact phenomena will benefit from the adoption of this theoretical perspective. The article sketches an outline of usage-based linguistics, proposes ways to analyze language contact phenomena in this framework, and summarizes the major findings of the individual contributions to the special issue, which not only demonstrate that contact phenomena are usefully studied from the usage-based perspective, but document that taking a usage-based approach reveals new aspects of old phenomena.

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Language, Migration, and Spaces of Representation

Journal of Germanic Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s1470542711000213 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 401-412

Author(s):

Patrick Stevenson

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

20Th Century ◽

19Th Century ◽

Structural Changes ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Late 20Th Century ◽

Contact Linguistics ◽

Language Varieties ◽

Linguistic Practices ◽

Germanic Languages

The study of relationships between language and place has a long tradition in the context of Germanic languages, from 19th century dialect geography to late 20th century contact linguistics. However, thecontemporary processes of migration, coupled with the emergence of new communication technologies and structural changes in the economies of states and regions, have created challenges for the study of linguistic practices and their place in the lives of individuals and socialgroups. The preceding papers in this volume take these challenges as an opportunity to reflect in new ways on past migrations. This concluding paper discusses the contributions they make to the study of language, migration, and place in relation to (speakers of) Germanic language varieties in North America and suggests ways in which they open up different spaces of representation.

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Neurologie und Kontaktlinguistik Neurology and Contact Linguistics Neurologie et linguistique de contact

Kontaktlinguistik / Contact Linguistics / Linguistique de contact, Part 1 ◽

10.1515/9783110132649.1.2.57 ◽

1996 ◽

Keyword(s):

Contact Linguistics

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Psychologie und Kontaktlinguistik Psychology and Contact Linguistics Psychologie et linguistique de contact

Kontaktlinguistik / Contact Linguistics / Linguistique de contact, Part 1 ◽

10.1515/9783110132649.1.2.31 ◽

1996 ◽

Keyword(s):

Contact Linguistics

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Tracing Pathways 雲路

10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Cultural Production ◽

East Asian ◽

Contemporary Literature ◽

Asian Studies ◽

Contact Linguistics ◽

Japanese Cinema ◽

Research Areas ◽

Chinese Migration ◽

The One ◽

East Asian Studies

This volume collects contributions written by eight authors interested in different research areas in East Asian Studies. Divided into a Japanese and a Chinese section, it explores topics ranging from East Asian literatures to contact linguistics and sociology. The Japanese section contains four essays about contemporary Japanese cinema and different aspects of Japanese modern and contemporary literature (i.e. the literary motif of kame naku, ‘crying turtle’, yuri manga, and tenkō bungaku, the ‘literature of conversion’). The Chinese section concerns two main macro-topics: on the one hand, it focuses on issues related to cultural contacts between Italy and China; on the other hand, it deals with Chinese migration to Italy, highlighting socio-historical aspects and cultural production.

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