Developments in English (eBook, ePUB)

Expanding Electronic Evidence
Redaktion: Taavitsainen, Irma

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological, theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the history of the English language, and historical linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316054079
• Artikelnr.: 49268938

Inhaltsangabe

1. English in the digital age. General introduction Irma Taavitsainen,
Merja Kytö, Claudia Claridge and Jeremy Smith; Part I. Linguistic
Directions and Crossroads: Mapping the Routes Merja Kytö: 2. Corpus-based
and corpus-driven approaches to linguistic analysis: one and the same?
Charles F. Meyer; 3. Quantitative corpus approaches to linguistic analysis:
seven or eight levels of resolution and the lessons they teach us Stefan
Th. Gries; 4. Profiling the English verb phrase over time: modal patterns
Bas Aarts, Sean Wallis and Jill Bowie; Part II. Changing Patterns Claudia
Claridge: 5. On the functional change of desire in relation to hope and
wish Minoji Akimoto; 6. From medieval to modern: on the development of the
adverbial connective considering (that) Matti Rissanen; 7. Spoken features
of interjections in English dialect (based on Joseph Wright's English
Dialect Dictionary) Manfred Markus; Part III. Pragmatics and Discourse Irma
Taavitsainen: 8. Interjection-based delocutive verbs in the history of
English Laurel J. Brinton; 9. Uh and um as planners in the Corpus of
Historical American English Andreas H. Jucker; 10. Religious discourse and
the history of English Thomas Kohnen; Part IV. World Englishes Jeremy
Smith: 11. History, social meaning and identity in the spoken English of
postcolonial white Zimbabweans Susan Fitzmaurice; 12. Singapore weblogs
between speech and writing Andrea Sand; 13. Mergers, losses and the spread
of English Raymond Hickey; 14. Complex systems in the history of American
English William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.