Name: Social Variation and the Latin Language
SKU: 50130950
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Author: Adams, J. N.
ISBN: 9780521886147

portada Social Variation and the Latin Language

Type

Physical Book

Author

J. N. Adams

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

956

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6x15.4x5.5 cm

Weight

1.51 kg.

ISBN13

9780521886147

Synopsis "Social Variation and the Latin Language "

Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties.

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