UID:
almahu_9949179566702882
Format:
1 online resource.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-272-6887-8
Series Statement:
Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS), volume 4
Content:
This contribution explores the use of the formal resources of English (third-person singular pronouns in anaphora, sex-sensitive collocations) for "assigned gender" in a corpus of letters written by settlers of the Great Plains of the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The textual work is introduced by a discussion of significant theoretical aspects of the grammatical category of gender and of certain methodological issues - particularly "Units of Anaphoric Reference". Although assigned gender has been approached from a general perspective, particular attention has been paid to two specific usages: the feminine pronoun as an indicator of colloquial American English, and the neuter pronoun as a frequent (and possibly patterned) choice for nouns like baby or child.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English -- References -- Studying real-time change in the adverbial subjunctive: The value of the Bank of Canadian English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bank of Canadian English (BCE) -- 3. A case study: The subjunctive in adverbial clauses -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Political perspectives on linguistic innovation in independent America: Learning from the libraries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English language texts in Jefferson's book collections -- 3. Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia (1785): One American's neologisms -- 4. Jefferson as potential linguistic patron -- 5. Conclusion: The populist scholar -- References -- Five Hundred Mistakes Corrected: An early American English usage guide -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Usage guides and usage problems -- 3. The author of Five hundred mistakes -- 4. The book's contents -- 5. The usage items' selection process -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Transatlantic perspectives on late nineteenth-century English usage: Alford (1864) compared to White -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Alford, The Queen's English -- 3. White, Words and their Uses -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- "Provincial in England, but in common use with us": John R. Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms an -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief overview of the EDD sources -- 3. John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms (1848): A descriptive account -- 4. Bartlett's DOA and the EDD -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- "Across the ocean ferry": Point of view, description and evaluation in nineteenth-century narrations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The language of description and participation -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References.
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Legitimising linguistic devices in A Cheering Voice from Upper Canada (1834) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some notes on A Cheering Voice from Upper Canada -- 3. A framework for the analysis of stancetaking devices -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Nineteenth-century institutional (im)politeness: Responses of the Colonial Office to letters from Wi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Colonial Office and the Cape Colony settlement plan -- 3. Theory and method -- 4. Backstage insights: Colonial Office data -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- '[B]ut sure its only a penny after all': Irish English discourse marker sure -- 1. Sure as a discourse marker in Irish English -- 2. The enregisterment of IrE sure -- 3. Sure in emigrant letters -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Assigned gender in a corpus of nineteenth-century correspondence among settlers in the American Grea -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Text work -- 3. Results -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-97908-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-0083-1
Language:
English
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