Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

Editors

Marijke J. van der Wal | Leiden University | m.j.van.der.wal

hum.leidenuniv.nl

Terttu Nevalainen | University of Helsinki | terttu.nevalainen

helsinki.fi

Over the last three decades, historical sociolinguistics has developed into a mature and challenging field of study that focuses on language users and language use in the past. The social motivation of linguistic variation and change continues at the forefront of the historical sociolinguistic enquiry, but current research does not stop there. It extends from social and regional variation in language use to its various communicative contexts, registers and genres, and includes issues in language attitudes, policies and ideologies. One of the main stimuli for the field comes from new digitized resources and large text corpora, which enable the study of a much wider social coverage than before. Historical sociolinguists use variationist and dialectological research tools and techniques, perform pragmatic and social network analyses, and adopt innovative approaches from other disciplines. The series publishes monographs and thematic volumes, in English, on different languages and topics that contribute to our understanding of the relations between the individual, language and society in the past.

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ISSN: 2214-1057

https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs

Volumes

14	Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives Edited by Israel Sanz-Sánchez 2024. x, 336 pp.
13	Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people Olga Timofeeva 2022. xv, 204 pp.
12	Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka 2021. v, 235 pp.
11	Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs 2020. ix, 310 pp.
10	Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world Edited by Raymond Hickey 2019. x, 289 pp.
9	Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850 Gijsbert Rutten 2019. x, 312 pp.
8	Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily 2018. xi, 311 pp.
7	Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics Edited by Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer 2017. vii, 331 pp.
6	Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen 2017. vii, 301 pp.
5	Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
4	Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English Edited by Marina Dossena 2015. vii, 221 pp.
3	Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective Edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche 2014. viii, 334 pp.
2	Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal 2014. xiii, 426 pp.
1	Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten 2013. vii, 279 pp.

Board

Editorial Board

Wendy Ayres-Bennett | University of Cambridge

Martin Durrell | University of Manchester

Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. | University of Georgia, Athens GA

Mieko Ogura | Tsurumi University, Yokohama

Suzanne Romaine | University of Oxford

Daniel Schreier | University of Zurich

Merja Stenroos | University of Stavanger

Sali A. Tagliamonte | University of Toronto

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade | Leiden University

Donald N. Tuten | Emory University, Atlanta GA

Wim Vandenbussche | Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Anna Verschik | Tallinn University

Submission

The series welcomes submissions. Book proposals, preferably structured along the lines indicated in our Guidelines for Book Proposals, can be sent to the editors:

Marijke van der Wal, M.J.van.der.Walhum.leidenuniv.nl
Terttu Nevalainen, terttu.nevalainenhelsinki.fi

When you are instructed to prepare your manuscript for production, please follow the Guidelines for Manuscript Submission.

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Main BIC Subject

CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General