Chapter published in:
Late Modern English: Novel encountersEdited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
[Studies in Language Companion Series 214] 2020
► pp. 44–64
The interplay of internal and external factors in varieties of English
Raymond Hickey | University of Duisburg and Essen
The validity of a division of factors for
language change into internal and external forms the focus of the
present study. A distinction is made between speaker-internal and
speaker-external on the one hand and community-internal and
community-external on the other. A central concern is whether such
distinctions are merely artefacts of linguistic analysis or whether
they reflect the reality of speakers’ linguistic behaviour. Data is
considered from varieties of English to show that instances of
change are frequently combinations of factors and that the
disruption caused by socially-triggered change can be minimised by
speakers applying considerations of system symmetry and regularity
to a change and thus provide a clear trajectory which can be
transmitted across generations.
Published online: 18 March 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.214.02hic
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.214.02hic
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