A Sociolinguistic History Of British English Lexicography

Author : Heming Yong,Jing Peng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000429480

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A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography by Heming Yong,Jing Peng Pdf

A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography traces the evolution of British English dictionaries from their earliest roots to the end of the 20th century by adopting both sociolinguistic and lexicographical perspectives. It attempts to break out of the limits of the dictionary-ontology paradigm and set British English dictionary-making and research against a broader background of socio-cultural observations, thus relating the development of English lexicography to changes in English, accomplishments in English linguistics, social and cultural progress, and advances in science and technology. It unfolds a vivid, coherent and complete picture of how English dictionary-making develops from its archetype to the prescriptive, the historical, the descriptive and finally to the cognitive model, how it interrelates to the course of the development of a nation's culture and the historical growth of its lexicographical culture, as well as how English lexicography spreads from British English to other major regional varieties through inheritance, innovation and self-perfection. This volume will be of interest to students and academics of English lexicography, English linguistics and world English lexicography.

Author : Dick Leith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134711451

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A Social History of English by Dick Leith Pdf

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-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation. This new edition has been fully revised. Additions include: * new material about 'New Englishes' across the world * a new chapter entitled 'A Critical Linguistic History of English Texts' * a discussion of problems involved in writing a history of English All terms and concepts are explained as they are introduced, and linguistic examples are chosen for their accessibility and intelligibility to the general reader. It will be of interest to students of Sociolinguistics, English Language, History and Cultural Studies.

Author : Anthony Paul Cowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015079211085

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The Oxford History of English Lexicography: Specialized dictionaries by Anthony Paul Cowie Pdf

These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. --from publisher description.

Author : Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474448567

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Sociolinguistic History of Scotland by Robert McColl Millar Pdf

Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their competition with the encroaching use of (Scottish) Standard English, he also traces the decline and eventual 'death' of Pictish, British and Norn. Four case studies illustrate the historical development of North East Scots, Scottish Standard English, Shetland Scots and Glasgow Scots. Immigrant languages are also discussed throughout the book.

Author : A. P. Cowie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191558078

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The Oxford History of English Lexicography by A. P. Cowie Pdf

These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two presents a systematic history of monolingual dictionaries of English and includes extensive chapters on Johnson, Webster and his successors in the USA, and the OED. It also contains descriptions of the development of dictionaries of national and regional varieties, and of Old and Middle English, and concludes with an account of the computerization of the OED. The specialized dictionaries described in Volume II include dictionaries of science, dialects, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, slang and cant, quotations, phraseology, and personal and place names. This volume also includes an account of the inception and development of dictionaries developed for particular users, especially foreign learners of English. The Oxford History of English Lexicography unites scholarship with readability. It provides a unique and accessible reference for scholars and professional lexicographers and offers a series of fascinating encounters with the men and women involved over the centuries in the making of works of profound national and linguistic importance.

Author : Marina Dossena,Charles Jones
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : English language
ISBN : 3039112570

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Insights Into Late Modern English by Marina Dossena,Charles Jones Pdf

This volume includes fifteen papers focussing on three important aspects of the history of English in Britain and overseas since the eighteenth century: the grammatical tradition of prescriptivism, syntactic developments and sociolinguistic factors affecting language variation. Within these areas, methodological approaches include those relating to corpus linguistics, social network theory, the investigation of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective, and lexicography. The individual sections are highly cohesive with each other, as the ideological considerations on which the prescriptive tradition was founded are underpinned by sociological factors. Theoretical contributions appear alongside 'case studies' in which instances of specific usage are investigated.

Author : John P. Considine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198785019

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Small Dictionaries and Curiosity by John P. Considine Pdf

This work tells the story of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. It explores not just the languages and the wordlists themselves, but also the lives of those who created them and their motivations.

Author : John Considine,Giovanni Iamartino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443807210

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Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective by John Considine,Giovanni Iamartino Pdf

Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective brings together a wide range of current work on English-language lexicography and lexicology by a team of twelve contributors working in England, continental Europe, and North America. Fredric Dolezal’s opening essay offers a provocative discussion of how the history of English lexicography has been, and might in the future be, written. The next four papers deal with the medieval and early modern periods: Carter Hailey investigates the dictionary evidence for individual lexical creativity in a discussion of Chaucer and the Middle English Dictionary; Gabriele Stein shows how early modern English dictionaries handled lexicological questions rather than simply listing words and equivalents; R. W. McConchie analyzes the biographical record of the lexicographer Richard Howlet, and Paola Tornaghi presents and discusses an unpublished source for the seventeenth-century lexicography of Old English. Three papers on the long eighteenth century follow: Noel Osselton’s is an analysis of the “alphabet fatigue” which led many early lexicographers to treat words at the end of the alphabetical sequence more tersely than words at the beginning; Elisabetta Lonati’s shows the engagement of John Harris’s Lexicon technicum with one of the sources of its medical vocabulary; Charlotte Brewer’s discusses the under-representation of eighteenth-century material in the Oxford English Dictionary. In the last three papers, Julie Coleman provides a groundbreaking analysis of Farmer and Henley’s Slang and its analogues; Peter Gilliver draws on the Oxford English Dictionary archives to tell the story of an important editorial crisis; and Laura Pinnavaia discusses the syntactic flexibility of a set of idioms in a corpus of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose. The volume as a whole offers new discoveries and important analytical and conceptual work, and is an essential text in the developing field of the history of lexicography.

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198808206

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English Usage Guides by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Pdf

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.

Author : Barbara M. H. Strang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317421917

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A History of English (RLE: English Language) by Barbara M. H. Strang Pdf

A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language speech and writing over a period of almost 2000 years, whilst also exploring more recent changes within the author’s living memory. This title aims to raise countless issues for enquiry and discussion, and its purpose is to serve as a springboard for language history learning rather than a textbook.

Author : Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748664382

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English Historical Sociolinguistics by Robert McColl Millar Pdf

Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts have been made to extrapolate backwards and interpret past linguistic change sociolinguistically. Some of these findings have influenced the discussion of the history of the English language as portrayed in the many textbooks for undergraduate courses. A consistent application of sociolinguistic theory and findings has rarely been attempted, however, despite the specialist literature which demonstrates this connection at specific points in the language's development.This textbook provides students with a means by which a previously existing knowledge of a linear, narrative, history of English can be deepened by a more profound understanding of the sociolinguistic forces which initiate or encourage language change. Uniquely, it discusses not only the central variationist tendencies present in language change and their analysis but also the macrosociolinguistic forces which act upon all speakers and their language. Chapters investigate the political, cultural and economic forces which affect a society's use of and views on language; language contact, language standardisation and linguistic attrition are also covered. Discussion is illustrated throughout by apposite examples from the history of English. The volume enables students to develop a deeper understanding of both sociolinguistics and historical linguistics; it is also be useful as a primer for postgraduate study in the subjects covered.

Author : Terttu Nevalainen,Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199922772

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English by Terttu Nevalainen,Elizabeth Closs Traugott Pdf

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.

Author : Phil Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134599585

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Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary by Phil Benson Pdf

This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work. Using theoretical, historical and empirical analyses, Phil Benson shows how English dictionaries have filtered knowledge through predominantly Anglo-American perspectives. The book includes a major case study of the most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and its treatment of China.

Author : Morton Benson,Evelyn Benson,Robert Ilson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015012948454

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Lexicographic Description of English by Morton Benson,Evelyn Benson,Robert Ilson Pdf

Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book describes the lexical and grammatical differences between American and British English and offers a solution to the problem of how to treat General American and British RP pronunciation in the same dictionary.

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : London : E. Arnold
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X000151372

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Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English by Peter Trudgill Pdf