Historical Sociolinguistics

Terttu Nevalainen is Professor of English Philology and Director of the VARIENG Research Unit in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki.Helena Raumolin-Brunberg was formerly a Senior Researcher in the Department of English, University of Helsinki.

• Preface to the second editionPreface to the first editionList of figuresList of tables1. Introduction: issues in historical sociolinguistics2. Sociolinguistic paradigms and language change3. Primary data: background and informants4. Real time5. Apparent time6. Gender7. Social stratification8. Regional variation9. Historical patterning of sociolinguistic variation10. Language change and the individual11. Language change: transmission and diffusion12. Conclusion Appendix I: Methodology: how to count occurrences?Appendix II: Numerical informationAppendix III: The letter collections ReferencesAuthor indexSubject index

"This revised edition of Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England testifies to the vivid interest in this interdisciplinary discipline by bringing in newly developed methodologies and approaches. Like in the first edition, empirical and illustrative case studies together with stimulating and enlightening research make this book a classic and an indispensable work for everyone interested in the whys and wherefores of sociolinguistic variation from a historical perspective."Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, University of Vigo, Spain and University of Manchester, UK