Exploring future paths for historical sociolinguistics / edited by Tanja Saily, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Säily, Tanja, editor.

Series:

Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; Volume 7.

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 2214-1057 ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar, Historical.

English language.

English language--Social aspects.

English language--Research--Methodology.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges. The individual chapters cover Dutch, Finnish and different varieties of English and are based on data spanning from the fifteenth century to the present day. Paying tribute to Terttu Nevalainen’s pioneering work, the book highlights the wide range and complexity of the field of historical sociolinguistics and presents achievements and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration. The book is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics and digital humanities to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.

Contents:

Intro

Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The future of historical sociolinguistics?

1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose of the volume

1.2 Nevalainen's 2015 essay

2. New insights

2.1 Methodological innovations

2.2 New data for historical sociolinguistic research

2.3 Theory: Bridging gaps, new challenges

3. Conclusion: The future?

References

Exploring part-of-speech frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English

2. Background

2.1 POS ratios in the study of (sociolinguistic) variation

2.2 Complexity in the genre of personal correspondence

3. Material and method

3.1 PCEEC and ReCEEC

3.2 Visualisation

4. Analysis

4.1 Complexity in the parsed corpus of early English correspondence

4.2 Colloquialisation and gendered styles

5. Discussion and conclusion

Appendix 1

Superordinate POS labels

Ireland in British parliamentary debates 1803-2005

2. Historical sociolinguistics, historical discourse analysis and the corpus approach to the study of history

3. The corpus

4. The challenge of identifying major shifts in discourse in a very large corpus

5. Trough one: The Great Famine, 1845-1848, historical background

6. Trough one: The Great Famine, 1845-1848, corpus analysis

7. Trough two: The establishment of the Irish Republic, historical background

8. Trough two: The establishment of the Irish Republic, corpus analysis

9. Conclusion

Discord in eighteenth-century genteel correspondence

2.1 Polite society of eighteenth-century England

2.2 Discord in the eighteenth century: Linguistic and socio-cultural background.

3. Relationships between politeness and discord: Methods

3.1 Socio-cultural embedding of politeness terminology (Nevalainen &amp

Tissari 2010)

3.2 Discord terminology in the current study

4. Case studies: Discord in eighteenth-century correspondence

4.1 Discord proper

4.2 Disgrace

4.3 Disorder

5. Concluding remarks

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Competing norms and standards

2. Rural letters, meta-level discussions and newspapers

3. Morphology and language planning

3.1 Nominal morphology in Finnish

3.2 The essive case: Change from below

3.3 The illative case and visible language planning

4. Conclusion

Data sources

Printed sources

Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770-1840)

2. Historical-sociolinguistic background

3. The variable

3.1 Changes in relativisation

3.2 Focusing on Dutch relative pronouns

3.3 The neuter relative pronoun in Late Modern Dutch

3.4 Norms for relativisation in Late Modern Dutch

4. Methodology

5. Results

5.1 Diachronic overview

5.2 Definiteness of the antecedent

5.3 Geographical variation

5.4 Gender variation

5.5 Zooming in on genre

6. Discussion and conclusions

"A graphic system which leads its own linguistic life"?

2. Materials and methods

3. Consonant variation: &lt

l&gt

vs. &lt

ll&gt

3.1 always

3.2 -ful

4. Vowel variation: &lt

ei&gt

ie&gt

4.1 friend

4.2 believe

4.3 receive

5. The standardisation of epistolary spelling

5.1 Idiolectal variation dominates in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

5.2 Generational change in the seventeenth century

5.3 Emerging standards in the eighteenth century.

6. Conclusions

6.1 On the reliability of CEEC for research on spelling

6.2 Overlapping waves of change

Historical sociolinguistics and construction grammar

2. Mutual challenges

3. Mutual benefits

4. An example analysis: sarcastic much?

"Vernacular universals" in nineteenth-century grammar writing

2. The Collection of Nineteenth-Century Grammars (CNG)

3. Case studies

3.1 Multiple negation

3.2 Adverbs without -ly

3.3 You was vs. you were

3.4 There is/there was with plural subjects

3.5 Epithets

Appendix

Revisiting weak ties

2. Theoretical background

3. Material and methods

4. Results and observations

5. Discussion and conclusions

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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