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The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of
English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of
the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in
the traditional linguistic areas - phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics - and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions,
onomastics, orthography, register, and standardization, among
others.
This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history
of different varieties of English. It explores language variation
and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering
theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as
well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external
historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English.
This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern
English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only
presents detailed outlines of the traditional language levels, it
also explores key questions and debates, such as do-periphrasis,
the Great Vowel Shift, pronouns and relativization, literary
language (including the language of Shakespeare), and
sociolinguistics, including contact and standardization.
How were you and thou used in Early Modern England? What were the
typical ways of ordering others in Early Medieval England? How was
the speech of others represented in the nineteenth-century novel?
This volume answers these questions and more by providing an
overview of the field of English historical pragmatics. Following
introductory chapters which set out the scope of the field and
address methods and challenges, core chapters focus on a range of
topics, including pragmatic markers, speech representation,
politeness, speech acts, address terms, and register, genre, and
style. Each chapter describes the object of study, defines
essential terms and concepts, and discusses the methodologies used.
Succinct and clear summaries of studies in the field are presented
and are richly illustrated with corpus data. Presenting a
comprehensive and accessible yet state-of-the-art introduction to
the field, it is essential reading for both students and academic
researchers.
How were you and thou used in Early Modern England? What were the
typical ways of ordering others in Early Medieval England? How was
the speech of others represented in the nineteenth-century novel?
This volume answers these questions and more by providing an
overview of the field of English historical pragmatics. Following
introductory chapters which set out the scope of the field and
address methods and challenges, core chapters focus on a range of
topics, including pragmatic markers, speech representation,
politeness, speech acts, address terms, and register, genre, and
style. Each chapter describes the object of study, defines
essential terms and concepts, and discusses the methodologies used.
Succinct and clear summaries of studies in the field are presented
and are richly illustrated with corpus data. Presenting a
comprehensive and accessible yet state-of-the-art introduction to
the field, it is essential reading for both students and academic
researchers.
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