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Insights Into Late Modern English

Author : Marina Dossena,Charles Jones
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 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.

Current Issues in Late Modern English

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Wim van der Wurff
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 3039116606

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Current Issues in Late Modern English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Wim van der Wurff Pdf

Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.

'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed'

Author : Javier Pérez-Guerra,Charles Jones
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English language
ISBN : 3039107887

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'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed' by Javier Pérez-Guerra,Charles Jones Pdf

This volume includes a selection of fifteen papers delivered at the Second International Conference on Late Modern English. The chapters focus on significant linguistic aspects of the Late Modern English period, not only on grammatical issues such as the development of pragmatic markers, for-to infinitive constructions, verbal subcategorisation, progressive aspect, sentential complements, double comparative forms or auxiliary/negator cliticisation but also on pronunciation, dialectal variation and other practical aspects such as corpus compilation, which are approached from different perspectives (descriptive, cognitive, syntactic, corpus-driven).

Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

Author : Marina Dossena
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268877

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Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English by Marina Dossena Pdf

The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which has only just begun to be investigated, and which are likely to yield significant findings. The contributors, whose long experience in the field of English historical linguistics ensures in-depth investigations, employ state-of-the-art tools for the analysis of specific phenomena and to set these in the light of a more encompassing framework concerning different text types and sociolinguistic considerations. While usage guides and dictionaries prove remarkable in their contribution to the definition of what is (not) acceptable in specific social circles, the language of ordinary users also takes centre stage in studies of correspondence, journals and travelogues. The volume is expected to appeal to scholars and students interested in the linguistic history of English as seen in contexts on which – until now – relatively little light has been shed.

Late Modern English Syntax

Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781107032798

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Late Modern English Syntax by Marianne Hundt Pdf

Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.

Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

Author : Päivi Pahta,Minna Nevala,Arja Nurmi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254405

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Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English by Päivi Pahta,Minna Nevala,Arja Nurmi Pdf

"This is a trailblazing volume. Too often do studies in historical linguistics adopt social (or other) theories of yesterday. But here we have cutting-edge research on social roles, identities and practices applied innovatively to historical data, leading to new insights-not just about Late Modern English but also about the dynamics of language, social phenomena and change-and lighting the way for future research." Jonathan Culpeper, Senior Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University --

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English

Author : Erik Smitterberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108474221

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Syntactic Change in Late Modern English by Erik Smitterberg Pdf

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.

Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence

Author : Marina Dossena,Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : 3039116584

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Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence by Marina Dossena,Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Pdf

The studies presented in this volume concentrate on aspects of Late Modern English correspondence in the usage of individuals belonging to different social classes, writing for different purposes, and finding themselves in different social contexts, both in Britain and in its colonies. As the growing body of research published in recent years has shown, analysing the language of letters presents both a challenge and an opportunity to obtain access to as full a range of styles as would be possible for a period for which we only have access to the language in its written form. It is an area of study in which all the contributors have considerable expertise, which affords them to present data findings while discussing important methodological issues. In addition, in most cases data derive from specially-designed 'second-generation' corpora, reflecting state-of-the-art approaches to historical sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Theoretical issues concerning letters as a text type, their role in social network analysis, and their value in the identification of register or variety specific traits are highlighted, alongside issues concerning the (often less than easy) relationship between strictly codified norms and actual usage on the part of speakers whose level of education could vary considerably.

Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English

Author : Merja Kytö,John Scahill,Harumi Tanabe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English philology
ISBN : 3034303726

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Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English by Merja Kytö,John Scahill,Harumi Tanabe Pdf

This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.

Writing History in Late Modern English

Author : Isabel Moskowich,Begoña Crespo,Luis Puente-Castelo,Leida Maria Monaco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262011

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Writing History in Late Modern English by Isabel Moskowich,Begoña Crespo,Luis Puente-Castelo,Leida Maria Monaco Pdf

This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The chapters cover methodological issues, the period and the status of the discipline itself, as well as pilot studies for the description of scientific discourse using CHET. They embrace topics in several linguistic fields: discourse analysis, syntax, semantics, morpho-syntax. The studies take into account extralinguistic parameters of texts, such as year of publication, sex of the author, geographical provenance of authors and the communicative formats/genres to which the text sample belongs. In the particular case of CHET, the collected samples can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as the above-mentioned metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. The book is of interest for scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics, as well as linguists in general. The metadata information used for analysis can also be of interest for historians and historians of science in particular.The Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), accompanied by the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT), purpose-designed software by IrLab, is accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21849

Late Modern English

Author : Merja Kytö,Erik Smitterberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261434

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Late Modern English by Merja Kytö,Erik Smitterberg Pdf

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.

Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

Author : Päivi Pahta,Minna Nevala,Arja Nurmi,Minna Palander-Collin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288233

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Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English by Päivi Pahta,Minna Nevala,Arja Nurmi,Minna Palander-Collin Pdf

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and evaluates different theoretical approaches to the question, and the eight articles by leading scholars in the field offer a multiplicity of methodological and theoretical approaches to the description and interpretation of social roles as expressed in a variety of texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While the specific period covered is Late Modern English, the theoretical insights offered will be of interest to any linguist interested in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and the history of English, as well as scholars in the social sciences and social history interested in the concept and realisation of roles.

Introduction to Late Modern English

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748631308

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Introduction to Late Modern English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Pdf

Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that forms the tail end of the standardisation process (codification and prescription), during which important social changes such as the Industrial Revolution are reflected in the language. Late Modern English is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention, mainly as a result of new developments in sociohistorical linguistics and corpus linguistics. By drawing on such research the present book offers a much fuller account of the language of the period than was previously possible. It is designed for students and beginning scholars interested in Late Modern English. The volume includes: * a basis in recent research by which sociolinguistic models are applied to earlier stages of the language (1700-1900) * a focus on people as speakers (wherever possible) and writers of English* Research questions aimed at acquiring skills at working with important electronic research tools such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* Reference to electronically available texts and databases such as Martha Ballard's Diary, the Proceedings of the Old Bailey and Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.

Insights Into Specialized Translation

Author : Maurizio Gotti,Susan Sarcevic,Susan Šarčević
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Translating and interpreting
ISBN : 3039111868

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Insights Into Specialized Translation by Maurizio Gotti,Susan Sarcevic,Susan Šarčević Pdf

This volume focuses on specialist translation - one of the areas of translation in greatest demand in our age of globalization. The 16 chapters deal not only with the classical domains of science and technology, law, socio-politics and medicine but also with lesser researched areas such as archeology, geography, nutrigenomics and others. As a whole, the book achieves a blend of theory and practice. It addresses a variety of issues such as translation strategy based on text type and purpose, intercultural transfer and quality assessment, as well as textual and terminological issues in bilingual and multilingual settings, including international organizations and the European Union. Today translation competence presupposes multidisciplinary skills. Whereas some chapters analyze the linguistic features of special-purpose texts and their function in specialized communication, others show how specialized translation has changed as a result of globalization and how advances in technology have altered terminology research and translation processing.

Eighteenth-Century English

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139489591

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Eighteenth-Century English by Raymond Hickey Pdf

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. This book is divided into thematic sections which deal with issues central to English in the eighteenth century. These include linguistic ideology and the grammatical tradition, the contribution of women to the writing of grammars, the interactions of writers at this time and how politeness was encoded in language, including that on a regional level. The contributions also discuss how language was seen and discussed in public and how grammarians, lexicographers, journalists, pamphleteers and publishers judged on-going change. The novel insights offered in this book extend our knowledge of the English language at the onset of the modern period.