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Date: 02-Jul-2024
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings: van Rooy and Kotze (eds.) (2024)


Title: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex
Multilingual Contact Settings
Series Title: Contact Language Library   60
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/coll.60

Editor: Bertus van Rooy
Editor: Haidee Kotze
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214751 Pages: 299 Price: U.S. $ 169.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214751 Pages: 299 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214751 Pages: 299 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214751 Pages: 299 Price: Europe EURO 137.80
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246967 Pages: 299 Price: U.S. $ 169.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246967 Pages: 299 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246967 Pages: 299 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
Abstract:

Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual
Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic
similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced
varieties of language use (including translation, native and
non-native varieties of English, and language use of bilinguals more
generally) can be accounted for in a coherent framework grounded in
the notion of ‘constrained communication’. These varieties have
hitherto been studied in independent scholarly traditions, especially
translation studies and world Englishes, leaving the potential
underlying unity underexplored, both conceptually and empirically.

The chapters collected in this volume aim to develop such a unified
perspective by drawing on corpus data across a range of languages and
language varieties, with a focus on written language, a neglected data
source in research on multilingual contact settings. The findings
point to shared general characteristics across individual contact
settings, which result from (probabilistically conditioned)
manifestations of the same deeper regularities – constraints – present
in diverse language-contact settings.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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