Ivor Timmis

Historical Spoken Language Research

Corpus Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses historical sources to discuss continuity and change in spoken language. Based on two corpora compiled using data from studies of Victorian London and 1930s Bolton, it shows how historical spoken corpora can illuminate the nature of spoken language and attitudes, values and behaviour of the specific community represented in a corpus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138938717
• ISBN-10: 1138938718
• Artikelnr.: 43676102

Autorenporträt

Ivor Timmis is Reader in English Language Teaching at Leeds Beckett University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction - In search of spoken language in the past
Chapter 2 The Bolton/Worktown Corpus (BWC) and the Mayhew Corpus (MC)
Chapter 3 Windows on Society: pronouns and vague category markers
Chapter 4 Evaluation, Affect and Intensity
Chapter 5: Dialect and identity
Chapter 6 Sources and resources for historical spoken language research:
beyond the MC and the BWC
Chapter 7 Vernacular grammar: longevity and obsolescence
Chapter 8 Vernacular continuity
Chapter 9 Reflections