| Insights into Late Modern English: Second Printing Contributor(s): Gotti, Maurizio (Other), Dossena, Marina (Editor), Jones, Charles (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3039112570 ISBN-13: 9783039112579 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $148.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Language Arts & Disciplines | Spelling & Vocabulary |
| Dewey: 427.09 |
| Series: Linguistic Insights |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.13 lbs) 378 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume includes fifteen papers focussing on three important aspects of the history of English in Britain and overseas since the eighteenth century: the grammatical tradition of prescriptivism, syntactic developments and sociolinguistic factors affecting language variation. Within these areas, methodological approaches include those relating to corpus linguistics, social network theory, the investigation of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective, and lexicography. The individual sections are highly cohesive with each other, as the ideological considerations on which the prescriptive tradition was founded are underpinned by sociological factors. Theoretical contributions appear alongside 'case studies' in which instances of specific usage are investigated. |