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Diffusion Processes in Language: Prediction and Planning.
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Afendras, Evangelos A. – 1970
A unifying methodology of diffusion studies is presented treating geographical, sociological, and historical phonomena of language within the same framework. Patterns of linguistic innovation and the social and psychological motivations for such a change, both in the individual and in society, are summarized in their functions as predictors of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Diachronic Linguistics, Diffusion, Futures (of Society)