Introduction to late modern English / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid.

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--18th century.

English language.

English language--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 linguisti

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; To readers; 1 English in the Late Modern period; 2 Evidence of pronunciation; 3 Spelling systems; 4 Writers and the lexicon; 5 Grammar and grammars; 6 Language and social networks; 7 The language of letters and other text types; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-159) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-13645-3

9786612136450

0-7486-3130-5

OCLC:

432996309