This paper focuses on the history of a language as a field of research which considers concrete linguistic phenomena in a linguistic area characterised by variation. A linguistic phenomenon can be related to the territory and the social environment in which it is used; it can also provide information about the social relationships between individuals, and its structure can vary according to the phonic or graphic substance of which it is made. Language observed on the diachronic axis is related to discursive habits that spread through society and across geographical space. Thus, the history of a language is related to the history of society and culture.
Gobber, G., Languages as historical facts, in Maggioni, M., Murphy, A. (ed.), Back to the Future. English from Past to Present, Peter Lang AG, Bern 2021: <<LINGUISTIC INSIGHTS>>, 278 21- 33 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/195703]
Languages as historical facts
Gobber, Giovanni
Primo
2021
Abstract
This paper focuses on the history of a language as a field of research which considers concrete linguistic phenomena in a linguistic area characterised by variation. A linguistic phenomenon can be related to the territory and the social environment in which it is used; it can also provide information about the social relationships between individuals, and its structure can vary according to the phonic or graphic substance of which it is made. Language observed on the diachronic axis is related to discursive habits that spread through society and across geographical space. Thus, the history of a language is related to the history of society and culture.
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