Text Types And The History Of English

Author : Manfred Görlach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197167

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Text Types and the History of English by Manfred Görlach Pdf

The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types. Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960s onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at charting the field for the history and present-day situation of the English language. In text types, a designation is linked with a more or less stable form which guides the writer’s production as well as the reader's expectation, permitting one to recognize straightforward uses as well as deliberate misuses. Some two thousand of such designations are here listed with minimal definitions and dates for first occurrences. The discussion then concentrates on selected types, which are seen as especially illustrative for English: book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes. Their functions and development over time are treated in correlation with their specific linguistic characteristics and adaptations to different period styles and social changes in the readership. The functional range of text types in traditions outside England and the consequences of the export of English categories are exemplified by the history of Scots/Scottish English and of English in India. The arguments are accompanied by a lavish supply of textual excerpts and more than fifty pages of facsimiles, which are especially relevant for insights derived from typographical features. A full bibliography and indices are provided at the end. The book will prove useful for decisions on the constitution of representative text corpora and stimulate research into a greater number of individual text types as well as contrastive analyses at least among European languages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1347683951

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Text Types and the History of English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andreas Fischer,Gunnel Tottie,Hans Martin Lehmann
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 3823358804

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Text Types and Corpora by Andreas Fischer,Gunnel Tottie,Hans Martin Lehmann Pdf

Author : Hans-Jürgen Diller,Manfred Görlach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110975369

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Towards a History of English as a History of Genres by Hans-Jürgen Diller,Manfred Görlach Pdf

Author : Matti Rissanen,Ossi Ihalainen,Terttu Nevalainen,Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110877007

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History of Englishes by Matti Rissanen,Ossi Ihalainen,Terttu Nevalainen,Irma Taavitsainen Pdf

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Author : Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110525281

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Historical Outlines from Sound to Text by Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs Pdf

The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics, orthography, register, and standardization, among others.

Author : Ursula Lenker,Hans Sauer,Judith Huber,Gaby Waxenberger,Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248428

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English Historical Linguistics 2008: Words, texts and genres by Ursula Lenker,Hans Sauer,Judith Huber,Gaby Waxenberger,Robert Mailhammer Pdf

The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women's mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex. The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies.

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270436

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A History of the English Language by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for Germanic has been added, Celtic influence is highlighted much more, there is more on the origin of Chancery English, and internal and external change are discussed in much greater detail. The philosophy of the revised book remains the same with an emphasis on the linguistic history and on using authentic texts. My audience remains undergraduates (and beginning graduates). The goals of the class and the book are to come to recognize English from various time periods, to be able to read each stage with a glossary, to get an understanding of typical language change, internal and external, and to understand something about language typology through the emphasis on the change from synthetic to analytic. This book has a companion website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.183.website

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521029694

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The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800 by Laura Wright Pdf

This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.

Author : Luisella Caon,Moragh S. Gordon,Thijs Porck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246998

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Unlocking the History of English by Luisella Caon,Moragh S. Gordon,Thijs Porck Pdf

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate language in texts that share specific forms, functions and audiences. They feature both quantitative and qualitative analyses of changing language use, often in relation to trends of language advice in such metalinguistic works as grammars, spelling books and usage guides. The authors showcase work on pragmatics and prescriptivism (understatement between Middle and Late Modern English, capitalization of common nouns from Early to Late Modern English and the use of stigmatized grammatical variants in eighteenth-century plays), specific text types (case studies of political, legal and medical English) and the language of late modern letters (diachronic stylistic changes, letter-copying practices, the role of letter-writing manuals and changing spelling practices). This volume will be of interest to those working on pragmatics, prescriptivism and sociolinguistics of English, historical linguistics, language change, computational historical linguistics and related sub-disciplines.

Author : Peter Grund,Megan Hartman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110643282

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Studies in the History of the English Language VIII by Peter Grund,Megan Hartman Pdf

This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.

Author : Peter Petré,Hubert Cuyckens,Frauke D'hoedt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263995

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Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English by Peter Petré,Hubert Cuyckens,Frauke D'hoedt Pdf

The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing on their dynamic and historical dimension. Changes in these are analyzed in order to explain morphological, lexical, and textual changes that would otherwise be hard to account for. Together, they provide a varied window on the effect of historical versions of a dynamic society on lexis and text. Examining lexical and textual change in history from a sociocultural perspective teaches us a great deal – not just about the past, but it also makes us think about similar phenomena in the present, enhancing our knowledge about how universally human some of these phenomena are. This volume will be of great interest to (English) historical linguists, sociolinguists, and scholars of sociohistorical and cultural studies.

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293244

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A History of the English Language by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of the language, it provides many example sentences, texts, and cartoons that are analyzed for the benefit of the student and which make this book ideal for class use. Some language-external topics are covered such as early printing and authorship debates. Tables and figures complement the material covered and exercises review the main points as well as ask further, more challenging, questions. Answers to the exercises are provided, as is a time line listing some of the external events, and some guidance on how to use the OED. Complementary web site information is provided throughout the book, and a companion web site accompanies the book. This book has a companion website: www.historyofenglish.net

Author : Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy,Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118257265

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The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy,Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre Pdf

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguistics Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developments Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables; historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and attitudes to language

Author : Teresa Fanego,Belén Méndez-Naya,Elena Seoane
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297723

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Sounds, Words, Texts and Change by Teresa Fanego,Belén Méndez-Naya,Elena Seoane Pdf

This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present thirteen papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the field of English historical linguistics. The areas represented in the volume are lexis and semantics, text-types, historical sociolinguistics and dialectology, and phonology. Many of the articles tackle questions of change and linguistic periodization through the use of methodological tools like corpora, linguistic atlases, thesauri and historical dictionaries. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, multi-dimensional analysis, systemic-functional grammar, Communication Accommodation Theory, historical discourse analysis and Optimality Theory.