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hat are the points of contact between
the study of language and the study
of history? What are the possibilities for collaboration
between linguists and historians,
and what prevents it? This volume, the proceedings
of an international conference held
at the University of Bristol in April 2009,
presents twenty-two articles by linguists and
historians, exploring the relationship between
the fields theoretically, conceptually
and in practice . Contributions focus on a variety
of European and American languages,
in historical periods from the Middle Ages
to the present day . Key themes at the intersection
of these two disciplines are the standardization
and classification of languages,
the social and demographic history of medieval
and early modern Europe, the study of
language and history ‘from below’, and the
function of language in modern politics . The
value of interdisciplinary collaboration is
demonstrated in a wide-ranging set of case
studies, on topics including language contact
in Northern and Central Europe, the relationship
between peninsular and transatlantic
Spanish, and new approaches to the
recent histories of Nicaragua, Luxembourg
and Bulgaria . The volume seeks out the interdependencies
between the two fields and
asks why exchanges between linguists and
historians remain the exception rather than
the rule .
Contents: Steffan Davies/Nils Langer/
Wim Vandenbussche: Language and History,
Linguistics and Historiography: Interdisciplinary
Problems and Opportunities • Patrick
Honeybone: History and Historical Linguistics:
Two Types of Cognitive Reconstruction?
• Nicholas M . Wolf: History and Linguistics:
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Nils Langer • Steffan Davies •
Wim Vandenbussche (eds)
Language and History, Linguistics
and Historiography
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012 .
XII, 503 pp ., num . fig . and tables
Studies in Historical Linguistics . Vol . 9
Edited by Graeme Davis, Karl A . Bernhardt and Mark Garner
pb . ISBN 978-3-0343-0761-1
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The Irish Language as a Case Study in an Interdisciplinary
Approach to Culture • Brian D .
Joseph: Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics:
Strange Bedfellows or Natural
Friends? • Nicola McLelland: From Humanist
History to Linguistic Theory: The Case of
the Germanic Rootword • Agnete Nesse: Editorial
Practices and Language Choice: ‘Low
German Language Monuments’ in Norway •
Robert Evans: Official Languages: A Brief Prehistory
• Tomasz Kamusella: Classifying the
Slavic Languages, or the Politics of Classification
• José del Valle: Linguistic History and
the Development of Normative Regimes: The
Royal Spanish Academy’s Disputed Transatlantic
Authority • Juan R . Valdez: Colouring
Language: Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s Representations
of Spanish and Dominican Identity
• Laura Villa: ‘Because When Governments
Speak, They Are Not Always Right’: National
Construction and Orthographic Conflicts in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain • Gijsbert
Rutten /Rik Vosters: As Many Norms as There
Were Scribes? Language History, Norms and
Usage in the Southern Netherlands in the
Nineteenth Century • Anneleen Vanden Boer:
Language and Nation: The Case of the German-
Speaking Minority in Belgium • Richard
Ingham: The Decline of Bilingual Competence
in French in Medieval England: Evidence from
the PROME Database • Rembert Eufe: Merov-
ingian Coins and Their Inscriptions: A Chal-
lenge to Linguists and Historians • Remco
Knooihuizen: The Use of Historical Demog-
raphy for Historical Sociolinguistics: The Case
of Dunkirk • Judith Nobels/Marijke van der
Wal: Linking Words to Writers: Building a Re-
liable Corpus for Historical Sociolinguistic
Research • Helmut Graser/B . Ann Tlusty: Six-
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Histoire · Geschichte · History
teenth-Century Street Songs and Language
History ‘From Below’ • Juan Manuel Hernández-
Campoy: Mood Distinction in Late Middle Eng-
lish: The End of the Inflectional Subjunctive •
Lisa Carroll-Davies: Identifying the Enemy: Us-
ing a CDA and Corpus Approach to Analyse
Sandinista Strategies of Naming • Krassimir
Stoyanov: Ritualized Slogan Lexis in the Bul-
garian Press during the Times of Violent Con-
tradiction in Ideologies (1944-1947) • Kristine
Horner/Melanie Wagner: Remembering World
War II and Legitimating Luxembourgish as
the National Language: Consensus or Conflict?
• Michela Giordano/Federica Falchi:
John Stuart Mill and Salvatore Morelli: Language
as a Social Tool in Nineteenth-Century
Britain and Italy .
nils langer is Reader in German Linguistics
at the University of Bristol . His primary
research interests lie in the area of historical
sociolinguistics and he is currently
working on language contact in Schleswig-
Holstein in the nineteenth century .
steFFan davies is Lecturer in German at
the University of Bristol . He studied History
and German at the University of Oxford, writing
his doctoral thesis on the literary, cultural
and historiographical treatment of Albrecht
von Wallenstein in the ‘long nineteenth century’
.
wim vandenBussChe is Professor of
Dutch Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel . He teaches courses on Dutch and
Germanic language history, as well as on various
aspects of sociolinguistics . His research
is situated in the domain of historical sociolinguistics,
with particular attention to the
language situation in Flanders during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .
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