EAN: 9783034307611

LANGUAGE AND HISTORY LINGUISTICS AND HISTORIOGR...

What 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.

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