Processes of change : studies in late modern and present-day English /

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"The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the pres...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jansen, Sandra (Editor ), Siebers, Lucia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Colección:Studies in language variation ; v. 21.
Temas:
English language > Variation > History.
English language > Variation > English-speaking countries.
English language > History.
Linguistic change > History.
Anglais (Langue) > Variation > Histoire.
Anglais (Langue) > Variation > Anglophonie.
Changement linguistique > Histoire.
Linguistic change
English language > Variation
English language
Language and languages > Variation
Linguistic change > Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
English-speaking countries
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sandra Jansen
  • Processes of change in late modern English. Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics / Joan C. Beal
  • The obelisk and the asterisk: early to late modern views on language and change / Kate Burridge
  • A (great) deal of : developments in 19th-century British and Australian English / Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö
  • 'but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every respect than I have': discourse marker sure in Irish English / Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
  • Scotland's contribution to English vocabulary in late modern times / Marina Dossena
  • Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled / Samantha Litty, Jennifer Mercer and Joseph Salmons
  • African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: processes of change in a transported dialect / Lucia Siebers
  • Processes of change in present day English. Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice / Morana Lukač and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
  • The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish English / John M. Kirk
  • Levelling processes and social changes in a peripheral community: prevocalic /r/ in West Cumbria / Sandra Jansen
  • The goose vowel in South African English with special reference to coloured communities in 5 cities / Rajend Mesthrie and Simone Wills
  • Borders and language / J.K. (Jack) Chambers.

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