On language and value in American speech
Subtitle: with a semeiotic appendix
By: Michael Shapiro
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Beau Bassin, Mauritius
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9786200240040
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: English language; Semantics; Linguistic change; Variation; Usage; Semiotics; Sociolinguistics
Description: "The specific field of scholarship in which this book falls is sociolinguistics--more concretely, the explanation of social variation in language, or the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is directly concerned with the rational explication of linguistic variety as evidenced by spontaneous innovations in present-day American English. I examine the ascription of social value to novel linguistic entities, as one of the areas in which the effects of spontaneous innovations are most notable. A special feature of the data is the plethora of examples drawn from media and colloquial language. The Semeiotic Appendix provides the reader with a theoretical background for the research embodied in the main text, relying on the theory of signs of the founder of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.