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The history of English in a social context : a contribution to historical sociolinguistics / edited by Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in Linguistics : Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 129
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; v.129
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.
- English language.
- English language--Social aspects--Congresses.
- English language--History--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (504 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "The History of English in a Social Context".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction / Kastovsky, Dieter / Mettinger, Arthur
- Contents
- Excellent in Shakespeare / Blake, Norman
- Address pronouns in Shakespeare's English: a re-appraisal in terms of markedness / Bruti, Silvia
- Gender voices in the spoken interaction of the past: a pilot study based on Early Modern English trial proceedings / Culpeper, Jonathan / Kytö, Merja
- Is there a social element in English word-stress? Explorations into a non-categorical treatment of English stress: a long-term view / Dalton-Puffer, Christiane
- The modal verb shall between grammar and usage in the nineteenth century / Facchinetti, Roberta
- Social relations and forms of address in the Canterbury Tales / Mazzon, Gabriella
- Covert and overt language attitudes to the Scots tongue expressed in the Statistical accounts of Scotland / Millar, Robert McColl / Horsbroch, Dauvit
- Fashionable idiolects? The use of the negative prefix dis- 1520-1620 / McConchie, Roderick W.
- On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots / Meurman-Solin, Anneli
- The influence of political correctness on lexical and grammatical change in late-twentieth-century English / Nagle, Stephen J. / Fain, Margaret A. / Sanders, Sara L.
- The changing role of London on the linguistic map of Tudor and Stuart England / Nevalainen, Terttu / Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena
- The rise and regulation of periphrastic do in negative declarative sentences: a sociolinguistic study / Nurmi, Arja
- Shibboleths galore: the treatment of Irish and Scottish English in histories of the English language / Pollner, Clausdirk
- Ethnolinguistic identity as common denominator: a socio-historical investigation of the lexical items for 'people' in South African English / Smit, Ute
- Perceived and real differences between men's and women's spellings of the early to mid-seventeenth century / Sönmez, Margaret J. -M.
- Sociohistorical linguistics and the observer's paradox / Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid
- Index of subjects
- Index of authors
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Revised and updated versions of papers presented at a workshop of the 1997 ESSE conference in Debrecen, Hungary held September 5-9, 1997, and the HESCO conference in Tulln, held September 11-14, 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783110810301
- 3110810301
- OCLC:
- 979755375
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