Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan Da Cunha English

by Daniel Schreier

Extremely isolated communities offer "laboratory conditions" for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first ever ethnographic field work on the most remote island in the world with a permanent population, Tristan da Cunha. It documents the historical formation of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403904073
• ISBN13: 9781403904072
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"