Language in Isolation, and Its Implications for Variation and Change

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7900765
AutoresDaniel Schreier (University of Zurich, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas682-699
Data de publicação2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage and Linguistics Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-818X • E-ISSN: 1749-818X
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00130.x
OpenAlexW1968400458
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas35

This article discusses some approaches to the conceptualization of isolation in sociolinguistic research. It argues that isolation is a multifaceted phenomenon with geographic, social and attitudinal implications. Based on evidence from geographically isolated speech communities (mostly islands) and socially isolated ones (so‐called Sprachinseln ) from around the world, it discusses their potential for variation and change studies, both in terms of synchrony (contact phenomena, language obsolescence or revival and intensification, language and identity, etc.) and diachrony, because they provide showcase scenarios to look into and reconstruct mechanisms of contact linguistics (e.g. new‐dialect formation), founder effects, colonial lag, etc

Aesthetics · Biology · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Language change · Language contact · Linguistics · Obsolescence · Phenomenon · Sociology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies