Linguistics and literary history : in honour of Sylvia Adamson / edited by Anita Auer ; Victorina González-Díaz ; Jane Hodson ; Violeta Sotirova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auer, Anita, 1975- editor.

González-Díaz, Victorina, editor.

Hodson, Jane, 1972- editor.

Sotirova, Violeta, editor.

Adamson, Sylvia, honouree.

Series:

Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 25.

Linguistic approaches to literature (LAL), 1569-3112 ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--History.

English language.

History.

English language--Style.

Literature and history.

Historical linguistics.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 216 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Summary:

Linguistics and Literary History' systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive and interpretative levels. This unique combination makes this volume on historical stylistics an important work for international scholars and postgraduate students working on the interface between literary history and language change, both from corpus-based and qualitative perspectives. The chapters written by leading scholars in these various fields are an appropriate reference work for teaching and research purposes in the areas of stylistics, historical linguistics, English language and literature, corpus linguistics and literary history.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1 / Anita Auer; Victorina González-Díaz; Jane Hodson; Violeta Sotirova

2 Chapter 1. Enregistering the North p. 13 / Joan C. Beal

3 Chapter 2. The origin and development of the iffy-an(d) conjunction p. 31 / Anita Auer

4 Chapter 3. From ornament to armament p. 49 / Mel Evans

5 Chapter 4. Borrowing and copy p. 71 / Philip Durkin; Kathryn Allan

6 Chapter 5. Decoding the parentheses in Shakespeare's Coriolanus p. 87 / Guohua Chen; Suping Duan

7 Chapter 6. The first person in fiction of the 1790s p. 111 / Joe Bray

8 Chapter 7. "Worth a moment's notice" p. 129 / Victorina González-Díaz

9 Chapter 8. Jane Austen and the prescriptivists p. 151 / Jane Hodson

10 Chapter 9. Dismantling narrative modes p. 171 / Violeta Sotirova

11 Chapter 10. Stylistics and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats p. 195 / Mick Short

12 Index p. 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Linguistics and literary history

ISBN:

9789027234148

9027234140

OCLC:

952200091