This volume seeks to extend and expand our current understanding of the processes of language standardization, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative appr

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and s

The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concept

This is the first volume to focus on the role of media in processes of linguistic change, one of the most contested issues in contemporary sociolinguistics. Its

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and s