32.346, Books: Language or Dialect?: Van Rooy

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Subject: 32.346, Books: Language or Dialect?: Van Rooy

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:31:09
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Language or Dialect?: Van Rooy

 


Title: Language or Dialect? 
Subtitle: The History of a Conceptual Pair 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/language-or-dialect-9780198845713?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Raf Van Rooy

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198845713 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 100.00


Abstract:

This book provides a historiographic study of the distinction between language
and dialect, a puzzle which has long fascinated linguists and laypeople alike.
It offers a comprehensive account of the intriguing and complex history of the
language-dialect pair, and shows that its real origins can be found in
sixteenth-century humanist scholarship. The book begins with a survey of the
prehistory of the language/dialect distinction in antiquity and the Middle
Ages. Raf Van Rooy then provides a detailed investigation of the emergence,
establishment, and development of the conceptual pair during the early modern
period, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when linguistic diversity
was first studied in depth. Finally, the much-debated and ambiguous fate of
the language/dialect opposition in modern linguistics is explored: although a
number of earlier ideas were adopted by later scholars, many linguists today
question the notion of a seemingly arbitrary and subjective distinction
between language and dialect.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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