本书主要讨论跟语言结构相关联的语言演变。书中绝大部分内容是拉波夫从1965年到1992年对于语言变化研究的总结。包括制约语言演变的因素，语言演变的机制以及各种涉及语言系统的变化。语言演变研究是语言学的基石。拉波夫通过大量的调查、实验、统计，分析语言变化的各种表现，阐述语言的本质、语言变化的规则、以及语言研究方法。提出了语言变化过程的可观察性，语言研究的可重复性；重新整合共时和历时、系统和实体的关系；运用新方法新手段来研究语言演变。方法的创新带来理论的创新。

Provides a practical 'how-to' manual that gives students an understanding of the technical and theoretical advances in acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and recording technology which is essential for sociolinguistic research.

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change , written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline in its multifaceted pursuits. It is a convenient, hand-held repository of the essential knowledge about the study of language variation and change.
Written by internationally recognized experts in the field.
Reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline.
Discusses the ideas that drive the field and is illustrated with empirical studies.
Includes explanatory introductions which set out the boundaries of the field and place each of the chapters into perspective.

There are some 6,500 different languages in the world, belonging to around 250 distinct families and conforming to numerous grammatical types. This book explains why. Given that the biological mechanisms underlying language are the same in all normal human beings, would we not be a more successful species if we spoke one language? Daniel Nettle considers how this extraordinary and rich diversity arose, how it relates to the nature of language, cognition, and culture, and how it is linked with the main patterns of human geography and history. Human languages and language families are not distributed evenly: there are relatively few in Eurasia compared to the profusion found in Australasia, the Pacific, and the Americas. There is also a marked correlation between biodiversity and linguistic diversity. The author explains the processes by which this distribution evolved and changes still. To do so he returns to the earliest origins of language, reconstructing the processes of linguistic variation and diffusion that occurred when humans first filled the continents and, thousands of years later, turned to agriculture. He ends by examining the causes of linguistic mortality, and why the number of the world's languages may halve before 2100. Linguistic Diversity draws on work in anthropology, linguistics, geography, archaeology, and evolutionary science to provide a comprehensive account of the patterns of linguistic diversity. It is written in a clear, lively and accessible style, and will appeal broadly across the natural and human sciences, as well as to the informed general reader.

This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as "bad" versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right.

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. "Language contact" occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second-language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing, and the structure of language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.
● An integrated approach - covers both individual and societal bilingualism
● Includes authentic, first-hand examples of child and adult bilingualism
● Includes a detailed survey by category of structural borrowing

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This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for research. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in the linguistic construction of utterances with which people express themselves in different languages and cultures. A motive for these parallels is isolated - politeness, broadly defined to include both polite friendliness and polite formality - and a universal model is constructed outlining the abstract principles underlying polite usages. This is based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures: the Tamil of South India, the Tzeltal spoken by Mayan Indians in Chiapas, Mexico, and the English of the USA and England, supplemented by examples from other cultures. Underneath the apparent diversity of polite behaviour in different societies lie some general pan-human principles of social interaction, and the model of politeness provides a tool for analysing the quality of social relations in any society. This volume will be of special interest to students in linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology, and the sociology and social psychology of interaction.

《汉语言文字学前沿丛书：城市语言研究的理论与方法》主要关注的是城市化中的语言问题，是当代语言学的前沿课题。大规模、高速度的城市化是现代化的产物，也是当今世界的重要发展趋势。《汉语言文字学前沿丛书：城市语言研究的理论与方法》在梳理了城市语言研究的理论和方法的基础上，以合肥科学岛、南京和北京等地的调查为切入点，深入研究了城市语言的特征，不同城市语言人口状况及语言生活的变化，城市化带来的公众语言交际的问题等内容。《汉语言文字学前沿丛书：城市语言研究的理论与方法》是在言语社区理论指导下的城市语言研究的典型案例，可以作为解决城市化过程中公众交际、社会整合等问题的重要事实依据，为建立和谐社会作出贡献。

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社会语言学的基本观点就是要研究语言与社会的关系，研究社会生活中的人们怎样使用玉器言使用的具体行为，也就是说，社会语方学关心的是谁对什么人在什么地方什么情况下如何具本地使用语言的问题。
日本社会语言学的研究领域主要包括以下几个方面；社会属性与语言、语言行为、语言接触、语言变化、语言意识和语言教育。本书也就以此为框架，利用从日本各地调查得来的语言资料，分别对上述研究领域进行社会语言学的考察。

《语言风格的秘密：语言如何透露人们的性格、情感和社交关系》指出：就像指纹一样，每个人的语言风格都不同。那些最能透露信息的词，往往是最短和最容易被人遗忘的，例如代词（你、我、我们、他们）、冠词（某个、这个）、介词（至、为、多于），以及其他大量的小词和隐性词。
“你”“我”“我们”“他们”“某个”“这个”“一个”、“但是”、“这”、“为”、“不”“的”…… 语言中那些最不起眼的小词，却最容易透露我们内心的秘密。著名社会心理学家/语言学家教你通过分析语言更好地了解自己和他人：
比如，人称代词「我」是口语中最常用的词，
领导者使用它的频率远高于追随者，
说真话的人使用它的频率远高于说谎者，
自杀的诗人使用它的频率远高于其他诗人。
语言风格的分析有助于抓捕罪犯或确定文学作品的作者，有助于了解名人、政客的思想，有助于预测人们未来的行为，还有助于更好地了解我们自己。读完本书，你将学会如何思考和分析语言风格，利用这些知识更好地了解自我、他人乃至这个世界。

《城市语言生活与语言变异研究》讲述了语言存生于语言生活中，离开语言生活，语言便只能成为没有生命的“标本”。故而语言学不仅要研究语言，更要研究语言生活。研究语言生活，可以更为全面地认识语言，观察语言与社会的宏观与微观的各种联系，从一个角度解释语言的发展演变规律。研究语言生活，有助于妥善处理语言带来的各种社会问题，有助于语言资源的保护和开发，有助于社团与公民的语言权利的维护，从而保证语言的社会功能得到更好发挥，促进语言生活和谐。
语言生活是社会生活的重要内容。社会生活是分领域的，语言生活的研究也须分领域，从而形成领域语言学。领域语言学绝非语言学家自己就能建得起来的，而是需要不同领域的专家与语言学家共同努力。领域语言学起码应当研究三个方面的问题：其一，某领域的语言文字使用状况；其二，某领域的语言问题及需要制定的语言政策；其三，某领域从业人员应具有的语言文字素质，并通过培训及能力达标测试等措施，保证这些素质的实现，提高从业人员的工作质量。比如当前已经开展十余年之久的普通话水平测试工作，就应当认真考虑各行业的特点，研发带有行业特色的普通话培训教材。

《语言失落与文化生存：北美印第安语衰亡研究》上海海事大学外国语学院英语一系教授蔡永良在其博士论文的基础上对以美国为代表的北美印第安语衰亡历程和原因的研究。从印第安语本身的流变、印白语言接触、美国建国后语言政策及语言教育对印第安语存亡的影响、美国社会历史变迁对印第安语存亡的影响，参考了尽可能多的中外文资料，做了较为详尽的梳理和一定的研究。