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Social Variation and the Latin Language

2013-05-23 Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Social Variation and the Latin Language by : J. N. Adams

Download or read book Social Variation and the Latin Language written by J. N. Adams. This book was released on 2013-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance languages. A distinction is made between linguistic change emanating from higher social/educational groups ('change from above') and that emanating from lower social/educational groups ('change from below').

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Book Synopsis Social Variation and the Latin Language by : Adams, James Noel Adams

Download or read book Social Variation and the Latin Language written by Adams, James Noel Adams. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers, and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties"--

Social Variation and the Latin Language

2013 Latin language
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Genre : Latin language
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Book Synopsis Social Variation and the Latin Language by : Fellow of All Souls College University of Oxford and Fellow J N Adams

Download or read book Social Variation and the Latin Language written by Fellow of All Souls College University of Oxford and Fellow J N Adams. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance languages.

Social Variation and the Latin Language

2013-05-23 Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Social Variation and the Latin Language by : J. N. Adams

Download or read book Social Variation and the Latin Language written by J. N. Adams. This book was released on 2013-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties.

Bilingualism and the Latin Language

2003-01-09 Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Bilingualism and the Latin Language by : James Noel Adams

Download or read book Bilingualism and the Latin Language written by James Noel Adams. This book was released on 2003-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities.

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