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  • 1
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    Mobile communications : an introduction to new media (2009)
    Oxford : Berg
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    ISBN: 9781845208141 , 1845208145 , 9781845208134 , 1845208137
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 190 S.
    Edition: English ed., 1. publ.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary Berg new media series
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Green, Nicola, 1969 - Mobile communications
    DDC: 302.231
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    AP 18300
    Keywords: Wireless Internet Social aspects ; Mobile communication systems Social aspects ; Cellular telephones Social aspects ; Wireless Internet Social aspects ; Mobile communication systems Social aspects ; Cell phones Social aspects ; Mobile Telekommunikation ; Soziologie ; Handy ; Kommunikation ; Neue Medien ; Kommunikation
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  • 2
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    The social embeddedness of media use : action theoretical contributions to the study of TV use in everyday life (2009)
    Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110209242
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vi, 122 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Communications monograph 6
    Parallel Title: Print version The Social Embeddedness of Media Use : Action Theoretical Contributions to the Study of TV Use in Everyday Life
    DDC: 302.23/45085
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    Keywords: Television broadcasting Social aspects ; Television Social aspects ; Mass media Social aspects ; Television and families ; Communication Research Television News Viewing ; Familie ; Fernsehen ; Medienkonsum ; Alltag
    Abstract: Scholars in the field of communication research have extensively studied television viewing in general and watching television news in particular. The book looks at the subject from an integrative theoretical perspective. Based on Schutzean sociology and action theoretical approaches to media use, the author argues that immediate social influences and other everyday life situations largely determine television use, and that the influence of short-term situational characteristics are often overlooked in person-centered explanatory models. In three empirical studies, the role of short-term situations and the influence of immediate social surroundings is analyzed. The use of Discrete Time Event History Analysis is an innovative way to look at household diary data. Findings reveal how family members influence each other in many ways. Watching television turns out to be an integral part of everyday life in the family, but also a force that may reduce family interaction. It is shown that television may serve as a surrogate for those family members that are not present, and that family members while present at home follow each others example. Partners are shown to mimic each other, children to mimic their parents, and parents follow the example set by their children. Television news viewing, in contrast to general television viewing is less determined by the immediate influence of others. Also, the individual motivations for news viewing vary throughout the day. First exposure to television news appears to be motivated by other factors than subsequent exposure. A need for 'surveillance' dominates first exposure, but subsequent exposure appears to be governed by other, more 'ritualistic' motivations. The book is important to scholars, graduate-level students and practitioners who are concerned with theoretical and methodological insights in the phenomenon of television viewing in everyday life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter ; Contents; Chapter 1. The social embeddedness of media use: An introduction; Chapter 2. Transcending Uses and Gratifications: Media use as social action and the use of event history analysis; Chapter 3. The situational and time-varying context of routines in television viewing; Chapter 4. Watching television news in everyday life: An event history analysis; Chapter 5. The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing; Chapter 6. On the use of an action theoretical approach to television (news) viewing; Backmatter
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    DOI: 10.1515/9783110216103
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  • 3
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    World Englishes : a cognitive sociolinguistic approach (2009)
    Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter
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    ISBN: 3110196336 , 9783110196337 , 9783110199222 , 9781282073128
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 278 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Applications of cognitive linguistics 8
    Parallel Title: Print version World Englishes : A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Intercultural communication ; English language Variation ; Cognitive grammar ; English language ; Sociolinguistics ; applied linguistics English /language ; sociolinguistics ; Cognitive Linguistics ; Africa Languages ; Influence on English ; Englisch ; Afrika ; Sprachvariante ; Kognitive Linguistik ; Soziolinguistik ; Kulturkontakt
    Abstract: The book presents Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for the study of cultural variation in world Englishes and within languages in general by offering a corpus-based analysis of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English. It also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and positions Cognitive Linguistics within a wider hermeneutic tradition. Hans-Georg Wolf, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong; Frank Polzenhagen, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
    Abstract: The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes. The authors survey the main tenets of both areas of linguistic enquiry and suggest that the theoretical and methodological apparatus developed both within Cognitive Linguistics generally and within its novel sub-discipline Cognitive Sociolinguistics can overcome certain limitations inherent in traditional approaches to cultural variation in language. They present a case study of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English as an exemplar for the investigation of cultural models in other varieties of English. Corpus-linguistic methods are combined with conceptual metaphor analysis and blending theory to elucidate a vast network of conceptualizations salient to speakers of African English. The findings, based on computer corpora and a range of additional sources, are discussed against the background of work in anthropology, religious studies, and political science. The book also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and concludes with a comparison of Cognitive Linguistics and pragmatic functionalism, placing the former in the wider framework of a hermeneutic philosophy that stresses dialogic understanding.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter ; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1.1. Cognitive Linguistics and the study of world Englishes; 1.2. The world Englishes paradigm; 1.3. The Cognitive Linguistic paradigm and the study of language variation; 1.4. Scope, methodology, and empirical basis of our study; 2.1. Analytical tools: Conceptual metaphor, cultural models, conceptual networks; 2.2. Aspects of the African community model; 2.3. Interim summary; 2.4. The African community model and politics; 2.5. Summary and implications of the analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1. Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study ofintercultural communication3.2. Foci of a hermeneutic approach to intercultural communication and a critique of functionalist positions; 3.3. Intercultural understanding and the problem of relativism; 3.4. Concluding remarks; Backmatter
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-273) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110199222
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  • 4
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    The small screen : how television equips us to live in the information age (2007)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 140516154X , 1405161558 , 0470692464 , 1281069582 , 9781405161541 , 9781405161558 , 9780470692462 , 9781281069580
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 199 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Small Screen : How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age
    DDC: 302.23/45
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    Keywords: Television broadcasting Social aspects
    Abstract: Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Documenting a period when televisions underwent several dramatic changes, this book examines TV as a tool that helped viewers come to terms with the new, fast paced information age
    Abstract: Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of cable, the proliferation of content providers, the development of niche marketing, the introduction of high-definition television, the blurring of traditional genres, and the creation of new formats like reality-based programming Argues that television programmes of the 1990s afforded viewers a symbolic resource for negotiating the psychological cha
    Description / Table of Contents: The Small Screen : How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age; Contents; Preface; 1 Television and Social Change; The Times They Are a-Changin'; Television as Public Discourse; 2 Life in the Information Age; The Information Explosion; Society through the Lens of Technocapitalism; Social Anxieties in the Information Age; 3 Hyperconscious Television; Embracing 'the Future': The Attitude of Yes; The Simpsons as Exemplar; Symbolic Equipments in Hyperconscious TV; 4 Nostalgia Television; Celebrating 'the Past': The Attitude of No; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Exemplar
    Description / Table of Contents: Symbolic Equipments in Nostalgia TV5 Television and the Future; (Re)Viewing the Small Screen; Life and Television in the Twenty-First Century; The Next Great Paradigm Shift?; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-188) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470692462
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470692462
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  • 5
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    Culture-on-demand : communication in a crisis world (2007)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 1405160640 , 1405160659 , 0470696540 , 9781405160643 , 9781405160650 , 9780470696545
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 222 p) , 24 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version Culture-on-Demand : Communication in a Crisis World
    DDC: 302.2
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    AP 14000
    Keywords: Communication and culture ; Globalization ; Communication, International ; Kommunikation ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Film, video, music, TV, the internet - these are now the global channels for experiencing cultural activity on-demand. At the same time, intense cultural conflicts have thrown the world into chaos. Religious fundamentalism, nationalism, militarism, and globalization continue to provoke widespread violence and unrest. This highly original, thought-provoking book - written by a pioneer of communication studies - is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture. From an evolutionary perspective, Lull argues that we need to harness the influence of information and personal communications technologies, mass media, and the culture industries to understand where our precarious world is headed and how we will get there
    Abstract: This highly original, thought-provoking book - written by a pioneer of communication studies - is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture. Written in an engaging and candid manner by a leading expert in this field Argues that cross-cultural understanding can only be achieved by harnessing the power of global media, popular culture, information technology, and personal communications technologies Examines the global trend of using film, video, music, and TV "on-demand" as the framework through which we experience all cultural activity Draws inspirat
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: All Eyes on the Global Stage; Chapter 2: Human Expression; Chapter 3: Programming Our Personal Supercultures; Chapter 4: The Push and Pull of Culture; Chapter 5: Globalized Islam; Chapter 6: Cultural Transparency; Chapter 7: The Open Spaces of Global Communication; Chapter 8: Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 9: Communicating the Future; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470696545
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    Communication games : the semiotic foundation of culture (2007)
    Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter
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    ISBN: 311019046X , 9783110897753 , 9783110190465
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 306 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Approaches to applied semiotics 5
    DDC: 302.2
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    AP 14000
    Keywords: Game theory ; Semiotics ; Communication and culture ; semiotics Communication studies ; game theory ; Electronic books ; Semiotik ; Kultur ; Spieltheorie
    Abstract: Main description: This study is a groundbreaking application of game theory to the semiotics of culture and communication. It shows that culture and communication are not merely means of integrating social actors, but primarily ways of distinguishing individuals who interact both competitively and cooperatively within society. Provocatively using the Darwinian idea of sexual selection, the author demonstrates how game theory enhances the semiotic understanding of culture and communication.
    Abstract: Biographical note: Eduardo Neiva, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA.
    Abstract: Review text: Over the past twenty years the insights of semiotics have inspired and guided research across the whole spectrum of the humanities - from anthropology to queer theory, from literary history to film studies, from philosophy to art history. Yet with time the imbalances and fault lines within the original core of semiotic theory have also emerged, or half emerged. Neiva names and defines a set of problems that semiotics must finally resolve - before the whole engine runs out of steam. A daring, inventive, passionately original book, this is essential reading for everyone concerned with culture, signs, meanings, subjects. Norman Bryson Blending social history with evolutionary biology, Eduardo Neiva shows how sexual selection impacts cultural practice through complex communicative exchange. Debunking conventional explanations of cultural development, the author employs a massive body of evidence ranging from the bloody battlegrounds of ancient conflict to the technologically-driven terrain of contemporary life to fashion an intriguing argument. James Lull, San Jose State University
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-296) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110897753
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    The hidden life of girls : games of stance, status, and exclusion (2006)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 0631234241 , 063123425X , 0470773561 , 9780631234241 , 9780631234258 , 9780470773567
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 329 p) , ill , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell studies in discourse and culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Goodwin, Marjorie Harness Hidden life of girls
    DDC: 302.3/4083
    RVK:
    HF 119
    Keywords: Girls Case studies Psychology ; Interpersonal relations in children Case studies ; Girls Case studies Social networks ; Social interaction in children Case studies ; Interpersonal Relations ; Child ; United States ; Englisch ; Soziolinguistik ; Mädchen
    Abstract: "The Hidden Life of Girls documents the language practices and interactive rituals used not only to sanction friends who violate social norms, but also to bully younger girls and those regarded as social outcasts. This volume will not only provide a clearer picture of children's worlds, but will also help guide future policy and intervention strategies in schools."--Jacket
    Description / Table of Contents: Multimodality, conflict, and rationality in girls' gamesSocial dimensions of a popular girls' cliqueSocial organization, opposition, and directives in the game of jump ropeLanguage practices for indexing social status : stories, descriptions, brags, and comparisonsStance and structure in assessment and gossip activityConstructing social difference and exclusion in girls' groups.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-316) and indexes , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470773567
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    Women and media : a critical introduction (2006)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 1405116064 , 1405116072 , 0470774908 , 1405153164 , 1281214647 , 9781405116060 , 9781405116077 , 9780470774908 , 9781405153164 , 9781281214645
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 293 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Byerly, Carolyn M Women and media
    DDC: 302.23082
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    AP 13500
    Keywords: Mass media and women ; Women in mass media ; Women in the mass media industry
    Abstract: "Women and Media" is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s. The book provides an overview of the key issues and developments in feminist media critiques and interventions over the last 30 years, beginning with the extant literature in this growing field and ending with a new study of women's media activism in 20 nations. The authors recount and analyze the first-hand narratives of nearly 100 women media activists whose work has contributed to the making of a feminist public sphere that has moved women leaders and agendas more forcefully into their societies. This highly original empirical base, and the Model of Women's Media Action that the authors developed from it, provides a unique account of women's struggles to improve, create, and otherwise employ media in pushing for social change. The text is written in a concise, engaging style, laying out the central concerns about the women - media relationship as it has operated in a variety of political/critical contexts. It can be used alongside "Women and Media: International Perspectives" (2004), by the same authors
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionPt. 1.Research on Women and Media: A Short HistoryWomen in/as EntertainmentImages of Women in News and MagazinesWomen as AudienceWomen and Production: Gender and the Political Economy of Media IndustriesPt. 2.Women, Media, and the Public Sphere: Shifting the AgendaToward a Model of Women's Media ActionFirst Path: Politics to MediaSecond Path: Media Profession to PoliticsThird Path: Advocate Change AgentFourth Path: Women's Media EnterprisesConclusionBibliographyAppendix:Research Participants.
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    DOI: 10.1002/9780470774908
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    Mediensprache : eine Einführung in Sprache und Kommunikationsformen der Massenmedien (2005)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter
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    ISBN: 3110173530 , 9783110173536
    Language: German
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 486 p) , ill
    Edition: 3., völlig neu bearbeitete Aufl
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: De Gruyter Studienbuch
    DDC: 302.23
    RVK:
    AP 12800
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    GD 8980
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    GD 8990
    Keywords: Mass media and language ; German language Discourse analysis
    Abstract: Biographical note: Harald Burger ist Ordinarius für Germanistische Linguistik an der Universität Zürich.
    Abstract: Review text: ""Die ›Mediensprache‹ wirkt gereift und reif - einfach ein stilles Buch, in der dritten Auflage seit 1984 am Ziel."Danie Perrin in: Publizistik 4/2006
    Abstract: Main description: Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in den aktuellen Stand der Medienlinguistik. So werden einerseits grundlegende kommunikationstheoretische Begriffe der Medienlinguistik vorgestellt ("Autor", "Medientext", "Intertextualität" usw.), andererseits werden - nach einem kurzen historischen Rückblick - die wichtigsten sprachlichen Phänomene in den heutigen deutschsprachigen Massenmedien Presse, Radio und Fernsehen an aktuellem Beispielmaterial beschrieben (Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit, das sprachliche Profil des "Moderators", mediale Textsorten, insbesondere Nachrichten und ihre narratologischen Aspekte, Standardsprache und Dialekte etc.). Dabei ist auch das Verhältnis der Sprache zu anderen Zeichensystemen (Bilder, Geräusche) zu berücksichtigen. Ein Ausblick auf die "neuen" Medien skizziert, wie "neue" und "alte" Medien sich zueinander verhalten. Das Buch stellt eine umfassende Neubearbeitung und Weiterführung der zweiten Auflage des Göschen-Bandes "Sprache der Massenmedien" (1990) dar. Pluspunkte Umfassende Einführung in die moderne Medienlinguistik und ihre Terminologie Berücksichtigt alle heutigen Massenmedien (TV, Radio, Internet, Presse) Bezieht aktuelle kommunikations- und zeichentheoretische Modelle ein Grundlegend für Seminare und Selbststudium
    Abstract: Main description: The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the current status of media linguistics. The basic communication-theoretical concepts of media linguistics are introduced and, following a brief historical review, the most important linguistic phenomena of today's German-language mass media are described using current sample material, while taking the relationship of language to other systems of signs into account. Key Features Comprehensive introduction to the main aspects of German language history Compiled on the basis of historical text corpora Easy to understand through transcriptions of all historical examples of word usage A fundamental work in preparation for courses, study and exams
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    DOI: 10.1515/9783110899788
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    Social networks and historical sociolinguistics : studies in morphosyntactic variation in the Paston letters (1421-1503) (2005)
    Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter
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    ISBN: 3110183102 , 9783110183108
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 318 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Topics in English linguistics 51
    DDC: 306.44/0942/0902
    RVK:
    HE 610
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    HH 8005
    Keywords: Paston letters ; English language Grammar, Historical Middle English, 1100-1500 ; English language Variation Middle English, 1100-1500 ; Historical linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Historical linguistics Sociolinguistics ; Mittelenglisch ; Historische Soziolinguistik ; The Paston letters ; Morphosyntax ; Sprachwandel
    Abstract: Biographical note: Alexander T. Bergs is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
    Abstract: Main description: The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). In three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English 〈h-〉 pronouns by borrowed 〈th-〉 pronouns, the introduction and spread of 〉wh-relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun). While the author aims at a balanced integration of different approaches in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, and language change, the main focus is on social network theory and the role of the linguistic individual in the formation and change of linguistic structures.
    Abstract: Review text: 0Any researcher interested in these variables should read this book, because they are discussed from a wide variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives and, importantly, discrepancies between the results of this work and the results obtained from these earlier studies should now be taken into account. In addition, the methodological and theoretical contexts of the analyses are put together in what might almost be called a hidden agenda of the book, which seems to be an effort to question our techniques and refine our understanding of the processes involved in language change…"Margaret Sonmez in: Linguistlist 2005
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    DOI: 10.1515/9783110923223
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