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Writing History in Late Modern English

Author : Isabel Moskowich

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 43,28 MB

Release : 2019-10-09

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027262012

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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



The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics

Author : Merja Kytö

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1092 pages

File Size : 24,93 MB

Release : 2016-05-03

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1316472914

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English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.



Late Modern English Syntax

Author : Marianne Hundt

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 409 pages

File Size : 22,45 MB

Release : 2014-08-14

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1107032792

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



Late Modern English

Author : Merja Kytö

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 50,58 MB

Release : 2020-03-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027261431

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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

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 40,97 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027254400

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"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 --



Introduction to Late Modern English

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 17,61 MB

Release : 2009-05-12

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0748631305

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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.



Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe

Author : Marina Dossena

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 263 pages

File Size : 44,29 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027256233

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In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots of contemporary usage begin to evolve, thanks to the circulation of new educational materials and more widespread schooling practices. In this volume, chapters representing diverse but complementary methodological approaches discuss linguistic and discursive practices of correspondence in Late Modern Europe, in order to offer material for the comparative, cross-linguistic analyses of patterns occurring in different social contexts. The volume aims to provide a general and solid methodological structure for the study of largely untapped language material from a variety of comparable sources, and is expected to appeal to scholars and students interested in the linguistic history of epistolary writing practices, as well as to all those interested in the more recent history of European languages.



Current Issues in Late Modern English

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Publisher : Peter Lang

Page : 452 pages

File Size : 48,76 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9783039116607

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Book Description

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



Formal and Methodological Approaches to Applied Linguistics

Author : Sonja Mujcinovic

Publisher : MDPI

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 47,88 MB

Release : 2020-03-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3039283227

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The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together state-of-the art articles on applied linguistics which reflect investigation carried out by researchers from different parts of the world. By bringing together papers from different perspectives, we hope to be able to gain a better understanding of the field. Hence, this Special Issue intends to address the study of language in its different dimensions and within the framework of multiple methodologies and formal accounts as used by researchers in the field. This Special Issue is dedicated to research in any area related to applied linguistics, including language acquisition and language learning; language teaching and curriculum design; language for specific purposes; psychology of language, child language and psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and language engineering; lexicology and lexicography; and translation and interpretation.



The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

Author : Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 708 pages

File Size : 49,3 MB

Release : 2012-04-30

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 140519068X

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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