Historical Sociolinguistics
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5NS268
Main group 1
Introduction
- Nevalainen, Terttu, What are sociolinguistics, Part of: Journal of historical sociolinguistics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, p. 243–269Compulsory
- Nevalainen, Terttu; Raumolin‐Brunbergs, Helena, Historical Sociolinguistics: Origins, Motivations, and Paradigms, Part of: The Handbook of historical sociolinguistics, Malden, MA, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012, p. 22–40Compulsory
The spread of linguistic innovations
- Blaxter, Tom, Ther varom mid j hia: Tracing linguistic diffusion in the history of Norwegian using kernel density estimation, Part of: , vol. 27, p. 5–34Compulsory
- Trudgill, Peter, Sociolinguistic typology and the speed of linguistic change, Part of: Journal of historical sociolinguistics, vol. 6, no. 2, 2019, p. 1–13Compulsory
- Maegaard, Marie; m. fl., Diffusion of language change: Accomodation to a moving target, Part of: Journal of historical sociolinguistics, vol. 17, no. 1, 2013, p. 3–36Compulsory
Standard language and dialects
- Berthele, Raphael, The selective celebration of linguistic diversity: evidence from the Swiss language policy discourse, Part of: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, vol. 42, no. 2, 2021, p. 125–136, Link to the articleCompulsory
- Haugen, Einar, Dialect, language, nation, Part of: American anthropologist, vol. 68, 1966, p. 922–935Compulsory
- Elspaß, Stephan; Niehaus, Konstantin, The standardization of a modern pluriareal language: concepts and corpus designs for German and beyond, Part of: Orð og tunga, vol. 16, 2014, p. 47–67Compulsory
- Rutten, Gijsbert; Krogull, Andreas; Schoemaker, Bob, Implementation and acceptance of national language policy: the case of Dutch (1750-1850), Part of: Language policy, vol. 19, 2020, p. 259–279, Link to the articleCompulsory
4. Literacy
- Harvey J., Graff, Introduction to Historical Studies of Literacy, Part of: Understanding literacy in its historical contexts: socio-cultural history and the legacy of Egil Johansson, Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 2009, p. 14–22Compulsory
- Houston, Robert A., Literacy, EGO - European History Online, 2011, Link to the webpageCompulsory
- Johansson, Egil, The history of literacy in Sweden: in comparison with some other countries, 2. ed., Umeå, Univ., 1977Compulsory
- Marker, Gary, Literacy and Literacy Texts in Muscovy: A Reconsideration, Part of: Slavic review: American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies, vol. 1, 1990, p. 74–89Compulsory
- Schaeken, Jos, Comments on birchbark documents found in the twenty-first century, Part of: Russian linguistics, vol. 2, 2017, p. 123–149Compulsory
5. Multilingualism and society
- Thomason, Sarah Grey, Language contact: an introduction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2001Compulsory
- Schendl, Herbert, Multilingualism, Code-Switching, and Language Contact in Historical Sociolinguistics, Part of: The Handbook of historical sociolinguistics, Malden, MA, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012, p. 520–533Compulsory
- Sairio, Anni; Palander-Collin, Minna, The Reconstruction of Prestige Patterns in Language History, Part of: The Handbook of historical sociolinguistics, Malden, MA, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012, p. 626–638Compulsory
6. Language and community
- Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo, A 'third-wave' historical sociolinguistic approach to late Middle English correspondence: Evidence from the Stonor Letter, Part of: Current trends in historical sociolinguistics, Warsaw, De Gruyter Open, cop. 2016, p. 46–66Compulsory
- Beal, Joan C., Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics, Part of: Processes of change: studies in late modern and present-day English / edited by Sandra Jansen, Lucia Siebers, uuuu-uuuu, p. 7–24, Link to the articleCompulsory
7. Digital Humanities Research Infrastructures and Methods in Historical Sociolinguistics
- Pace-Sigge, Michael., Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web: Early Psycholinguistic Theories, Corpus Linguistics and AI Applications, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018Compulsory
- Kogkitsidou, E.; Gambette, Philippe, Normalisation of 16th and 17th Century Texts in French and Geographical Named Entity Recognition, Part of: Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, ACM / Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 28–34Compulsory
- Kytö, M.; Pahta, P., Evidence from historical corpora up to the twentieth century, Part of: The Oxford handbook of the history of English, New York, Oxford University Press, 2012, Link to the articleCompulsory
- Petrulevich, Alexandra, Place-name variation in medieval literature in the digital age, Leeds, Arc Humanities Press, 2023Compulsory
- Saario, L. et al., The burden of legacy: Producing the Tagged Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension, Part of: Research in corpus linguistics, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, p. 104–131, Link to the articleCompulsory
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