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This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.

A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-

How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive

It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu