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

by Todd J Moss, Daniel Schreier, D. 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 fieldwork 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349509248
• ISBN13: 9781349509249
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"