UID:
almahu_9949706676602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (263 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789027246998
Serie:
Current issues in linguistic theory series vol. 364
Inhalt:
"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"--
Anmerkung:
Introduction : unlocking the history of English / Luisella Caon, Moragh Gordon & Thijs Porck -- Researching understatement in the history of English / Claudia Claridge -- The rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization in English : a corpus-based approach / Jessica Nowak & Stefan Hartmann -- Gender, genre, and prescriptivism : eighteenth-century female playwrights' use of you was and you were / James Hyett & Carol Percy -- A manipulative technique in a congressional debate : a case study from 1789 / Juhani Rudanko & Paul Rickman -- Is legal discourse really "outside the ravages of time"? A diachronic analysis of nominalizations in British judicial decisions / Paula Rodríguez-Puente -- Duties, offices, and conduct : the lexis of moral sense and practical ethics in late eighteenth-century medical writing / Elisabetta Lonati -- Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpus / Tanja Säily, Turo Vartiainen, Harri Siirtola & Terttu Nevalainen -- "No criticism or remarks & pray burn it as fast as you read it" : exploring copying practices in Mary Hamilton's private correspondence / Tino Oudesluijs -- Filled-in petition forms and hand-drafted petitions to the Foundling Hospital : a comparison and the influence of letter-writing manuals / Nuria Calvo Cortés -- "Quhen I am begun to write I really knou not what to say" : inter- and intra-writer variation in the use of 〈quh-〉 in early modern Scots / Sarah van Eyndhoven.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-272-1472-7
Sprache:
Englisch
