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Transatlantic perspectives on late modern English /
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 cen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Advances in historical sociolinguistics ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 collections3. 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. Introduction2. 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 remarksReferences; 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 sure1. 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.