Voices past and present : studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts : in honor of Merja Kytö / edited by Ewa Jonsson, Tove Larsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jonsson, Ewa, 1968- editor.

Larsson, Tove, editor.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; 97.

Studies in Corpus Linguistics ; 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Spoken English.

English language.

Voice in literature.

Oral communication in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The studies offer new insights into historical and present-day corpus pragmatics by identifying and exploring features of orality in a variety of registers. For readers who are new to the field, the range of approaches will provide a helpful overview; for readers who are already familiar with the field, the volume will shed light on the complexity of factors such as register, sociolinguistic variability and language attitude, thus making it a useful resource and stepping stone for further exploration. The volume celebrates the groundbreaking contributions of Professor Merja Kytö in making accessible speech-related corpus material and leading the way in its exploration"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of contributors

Foreword

Chapter 1. Voices of English

Part I. Early Modern English

Chapter 2. Pragmatic noise in Shakespeare’s plays

Chapter 3. Keywords that characterise Shakespeare’s (anti)heroes and villains

Chapter 4. Revealing speech

Chapter 5. Saying, crying, replying, and continuing

Chapter 6. Interjections in early popular literature

Chapter 7. Godly vocabulary in Early Modern English religious debate

Chapter 8. Patterns of reader involvement on sixteenth-century English title pages, with special reference to second-person pronouns

Part II. Late Modern English

Chapter 9. Epistemic adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus

Chapter 10. Question strategies in the Old Bailey Corpus

Chapter 11. Sure in Irish English

Chapter 12. American English gotten

Part III. Present-day English

Chapter 13. Explaining explanatory so

Chapter 14. Return to the future

Chapter 15. Sort of and kind of from an English-Swedish perspective

Chapter 16. From yes to innit

Chapter 17. “If anyone would have told me, I would have not believed it”

Chapter 18. Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction

Chapter 19. Orality on the searchable web

Select list of publications by Merja Kytö

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.