journal: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

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Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

ISSN: 2199-2908

Herausgegeben von: Anita Auer, Gijsbert Rutten, Israel Sanz-Sanchez, Rik Vosters

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Objective
The Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics (JHSL) is a double-blind peer-reviewed forum for research into the social history of language. We welcome original contributions (both linguistic and interdisciplinary) from young and established scholars alike on aspects of language and society in the past including (but not limited to) the social embedding of language variation and change, issues of language contact and conflict, historical multilingualism, the social stratification of writing skills, the development of language norms and the impact of language ideologies. JHSL also publishes book reviews of recent work in these domains. Both the managing editorial team and the editorial board are members of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network.

Topics

Language in sociohistorical context
Variation and change
Language contact and conflict
Language shift
Language standardization
Corpus linguistics
Multilingualism
Language ideologies

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The Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics welcomes proposals for special issues. Proposals need to provide an explanation of the main theme of the special issue (500-1,000 words) and abstracts of the individual papers (200-300 words each, without references). When compiling a proposal, please keep the following points in mind:

Special issues should have one well-defined overarching theme that is of relevance to the field and of interest to the broad readership of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. The theme of the issue should be explained against the background of recent scholarship in historical sociolinguistics.
The individual papers should be preceded by an introduction by the guest editors in which they explain the theme of the issue as well as introduce the papers.
Every paper in the issue should have a clear connection to the overarching theme and has to address historical and sociolinguistic issues.
A special issue ideally comprises papers on a variety of languages.

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Band 9 Heft 2

Oktober 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 24. Oktober 2023

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Seiten: i-ii

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Articles

Open Access 24. Oktober 2023

Out of the mouths of babes: children and the formation of the Río de la Plata Spanish address system

María Irene Moyna, Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Seiten: 189-220

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the effects of child language acquisition as a critical factor in a morphological change, namely, the replacement of the etymologically singular second person paradigm ( tuteo ) by its plural counterpart ( voseo ) in 19th century Río de la Plata Spanish. The account applies a sociohistorical model which proposes that young children can function as language change agents in environments characterized by unpredictable input variation, lack of normative mechanisms, and the emergence of peer networks among young learners. The model is then applied to explain the rapid generalization of voseo in the late 1800s, a well-documented but poorly understood process. This change was nestled in an environment characterized by the rapid breakdown and reshaping of social networks through country-to-city migration and massive immigration, and by the resulting contact between L1 and L2 speakers of Iberian and non-Iberian varieties. Our account hypothesizes that successive cohorts of children actuated the various stages of this change, by relying on child language acquisition biases in the learning of verbal morphology observed across Romance varieties. This study combines archival evidence and sociohistorical information with present-day acquisitional data. The latter offers a piece often missing in sociohistorical accounts of language change.

Öffentlich zugänglich 24. Oktober 2023

The role of nativeness in early modern foreign language learning: evidence from teaching materials

André Kött, Ulrike Vogl

Seiten: 221-242

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In this article, we explore how the “ideal student” and “the ideal teacher” of a modern foreign language were depicted in 16th and 17th-century textbooks of the genre of so-called “dialogue books”. More specifically we assess in which areas language expertise was expected from students and teachers and how nativeness, i.e., being a native speaker, was construed as an element of this general expertise. Our insights are based on the structure and content of the textbooks. Moreover, we analyse introductory texts, written by textbook authors or printers. The teaching material reveals a strong focus on spoken language as it consists of dialogues inspired by daily life and pronunciation guides that use a contrastive approach. Overall, our analysis suggests that the “ideal student” has to learn to speak a foreign language, thereby striving for a correct pronunciation and to communicate in a polite and pragmatically adequate way. The “ideal teacher” is a native speaker who has the authority to teach his mother tongue and to judge the teaching of others. However, the superiority of nativeness pales beside other required qualifications, i.e., learnedness, didactic skills and expertise in the language one teaches.

Open Access 24. Oktober 2023

‘The seas was like mountains’: intra-writer variation and social mobility in Irish emigrant letters

Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno

Seiten: 243-261

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This paper presents a case study based on the writing of James Horner, one of the many Irish emigrants who crossed the Atlantic between the late 1700s and early 1800s. Communication between Horner and his family back in Ireland was kept through personal correspondence. His letters, which contain about 14,000 words in total, are part of the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR), and they provide detailed accounts of his experiences and impressions of the recently adopted country. They also show progressive standardisation, which makes them an interesting site for historical sociolinguistic analysis: shifting from vernacular Irish English towards a more standardised type of English to some degree. Our study focuses on the use of subject-verb agreement and addresses the following research questions: does geographical and social mobility condition Horner’s speech? If so, how does an individual’s social status affect language? The findings reported below show that social mobility as well as dialect contact seem to have contributed to general standardisation and the subsequent blurring of identity markers in language use. The paper, thus, offers new perspectives on the analysis of intra-speaker variation using historical data and contributes to the discussion of the need for this type of micro-analysis in the area of historical sociolinguistics.

Open Access 24. Oktober 2023

Locating the ‘Age of Prescriptivism’ in Late Modern periodical reviews: a corpus-assisted discourse analytic approach

Beth Malory

Seiten: 263-289

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This paper reports the findings of a corpus-based study of prescriptive and normative discourses in Late Modern English review periodicals, using a purpose-built diachronic corpus of review articles published during the period 1750–1899. Drawing on established protocols from Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies and systematic comparison of 15 sub-corpora, it identifies decades during which prescriptive discourses were most frequent. This distributional pattern provides empirical evidence of an ‘Age of Prescriptivism’ in periodical reviewing, during which prescriptive discourses reached their zenith. Whilst the label ‘Age of Prescriptivism’ has been applied to a number of periods of English in recent decades, the findings reported here show clearly that the eighteenth century was the locus of prescriptive activity in the review periodical genre. The innovative application of corpus-based discourse-analytic methodologies for the identification of normative trends reported in this paper also has potential implications for studying prescriptivism as a sociohistorical linguistic phenomenon in other diachronic contexts.

24. Oktober 2023

Language maintenance and shift in a Swiss community on the Black Sea

Natalia Bichurina

Seiten: 291-315

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This paper explores the dynamics of the linguistic situation in a Swiss colony of Shabo on the Black Sea, created in 1822. Its political belonging changed several times: from the Russian empire to the Kingdom of Romania and the USSR (today Ukraine). Metalinguistic discourse produced by various social actors in different sociopolitical settings is compared here to the use of Francoprovençal, French, and Russian as discovered in archival data. Accordingly, the study is based, on the one hand, on the narratives in manuscripts and publications (from the Archives of Odessa, Bern, and Romainmôtiers), and on the other hand, on a corpus of private letters (from family archives in Vaud), as well as early (socio)linguistic descriptions compared to linguistic data collected in Vaud. This case study aims to shed light on the complex relationship between the linguistic processes and language ideologies in changing socio-political spaces.

Book Reviews

24. Oktober 2023

Ivor Timmis: The discourse of desperation: late 18th and early 19th century letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues

Tony Fairman

Seiten: 317-321

24. Oktober 2023

Kai Witzlack-Makarevich: Sprachpurismus im Polnischen. Ausrichtung, Diskurs, Metaphorik, Motive und Verlauf. Von den Teilungen Polens bis zur Gegenwart

Artur Dariusz Kubacki

Seiten: 323-328

Open Access 24. Oktober 2023

Olga Timofeeva: Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities of people (Advances in historical sociolinguistics 13)

Christine Wallis

Seiten: 329-333

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24. Oktober 2023

Anna D. Havinga & Bettina Lindner-Bornemann: Deutscher Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert: Sprachmentalität, Sprachwirklichkeit, Sprachreichtum (Germanistische Bibliothek 71)

Markus Schiegg

Seiten: 335-338

24. Oktober 2023

Megumi Sato: Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Untersuchungen zur Kasusrektion der Präpositionen wegen, statt, während und trotz

Konstantin Niehaus

Seiten: 339-343

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Editorial

Editor-In-Chief
Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Editors
Anita Auer (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Israel Sanz-Sánchez (West Chester University, USA)
Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Review Editor
Anna Havinga
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Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1TE
UK

Honorary Editors
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Wim Vandenbussche (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Editorial Board
Jeroen Darquennes (Université de Namur, Belgium)
Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Stephan Elspaß (Universität Salzburg, Austria)
Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield, UK)
Kristine Horner (University of Sheffield, UK)
Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University, USA)
Nils Langer (University of Bristol, UK)
Mark Richard Lauersdorf (University of Kentucky, USA)
Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales, Australia)
France Martineau (Université d’Ottawa, Canada)
Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Sergio Romero (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Hiroyuki Takada (Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan)
José del Valle (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)
Marijke van der Wal (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Laura Wright (University of Cambridge, UK)

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Online ISSN: 2199-2908
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 20. März 2015
Erscheinungsweise: 2 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: researchers in the field of historical sociolinguistics