Socio‑Historical Linguistics: Its Status And . . .
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| Originally published | March 11, 1982 |
| Authors | Suzanne Romaine |
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| ID | 2063949 |
About Socio‑Historical Linguistics: Its Status And . . .
Synchronic sociolinguistics has been particularly convincing in its use of quantitative models to demonstrates how 'the present might explain the past'. However, the relevance of sociolinguistics to historical linguistics 'using the past to explain the present', has been largely ignored. . . .