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Processes of change : studies in late modern and present-day English / [edited by] Sandra Jansen, University of Paderborn ; Lucia Siebers, University of Regensburg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in language variation ; v. 21.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027262103
  • 9027262101
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Processes of changeDDC classification:
  • 427 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1074.7
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Contents:
Introduction / Sandra Jansen -- Processes of change in late modern English. Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics / Joan C. Beal -- The obelisk and the asterisk: early to late modern views on language and change / Kate Burridge -- A (great) deal of : developments in 19th-century British and Australian English / Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö -- 'but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every respect than I have': discourse marker sure in Irish English / Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno -- Scotland's contribution to English vocabulary in late modern times / Marina Dossena -- Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled / Samantha Litty, Jennifer Mercer and Joseph Salmons -- African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: processes of change in a transported dialect / Lucia Siebers -- Processes of change in present day English. Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice / Morana Lukač and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish English / John M. Kirk -- Levelling processes and social changes in a peripheral community: prevocalic /r/ in West Cumbria / Sandra Jansen -- The goose vowel in South African English with special reference to coloured communities in 5 cities / Rajend Mesthrie and Simone Wills -- Borders and language / J.K. (Jack) Chambers.
Summary: "The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present day. The volume presents a collection of in-depth studies on a broad spectrum of phonetic, lexical, grammatical and discourse variation, drawing on historical corpora, dictionaries, metalinguistic commentary, ego-documents, spoken language and survey data. Apart from advancing our knowledge of processes of language change in varieties of English, including British English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, American English and Canadian English, the individual chapters contribute to the theoretical debates on variation and change in Late Modern as well as Present-day English"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction / Sandra Jansen -- Processes of change in late modern English. Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics / Joan C. Beal -- The obelisk and the asterisk: early to late modern views on language and change / Kate Burridge -- A (great) deal of : developments in 19th-century British and Australian English / Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö -- 'but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every respect than I have': discourse marker sure in Irish English / Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno -- Scotland's contribution to English vocabulary in late modern times / Marina Dossena -- Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled / Samantha Litty, Jennifer Mercer and Joseph Salmons -- African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: processes of change in a transported dialect / Lucia Siebers -- Processes of change in present day English. Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice / Morana Lukač and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish English / John M. Kirk -- Levelling processes and social changes in a peripheral community: prevocalic /r/ in West Cumbria / Sandra Jansen -- The goose vowel in South African English with special reference to coloured communities in 5 cities / Rajend Mesthrie and Simone Wills -- Borders and language / J.K. (Jack) Chambers.

"The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present day. The volume presents a collection of in-depth studies on a broad spectrum of phonetic, lexical, grammatical and discourse variation, drawing on historical corpora, dictionaries, metalinguistic commentary, ego-documents, spoken language and survey data. Apart from advancing our knowledge of processes of language change in varieties of English, including British English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, American English and Canadian English, the individual chapters contribute to the theoretical debates on variation and change in Late Modern as well as Present-day English"-- Provided by publisher.

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