Author:
Ivana Eterović
Summary
EXPLORING FUTURE PATHS
FOR HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.)
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.
The book Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics is one of the recently published volumes
in the John Benjamins Publishing Company’s book series Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. As we
learn from the editors Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna
Palander-Collin and Anita Auer in the introductory
chapter The future of historical sociolinguistics?, the main inspiration for this volume was the pioneering work of the Finnish linguist Terttu Nevalainen in the field of historical sociolinguistics, and this inspiration is shared not only by the editors, but also by the other authors in this book. More precisely, the most impor tant impetus was Nevalainen’s essay What are historical sociolinguistics?, published in 2015, where she introduced layered simultaneity and informational maximalism as key concepts in historical
sociolinguistic research.
Key words
Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics; historical sociolinguistics
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