Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence
Methodology and Data
The studies presented in this volume concentrate on aspects of Late Modern English correspondence in the usage of individuals belonging to different social classes, writing for different purposes, and finding themselves in different social contexts, both in Britain and in its colonies. As the growing body of research published in recent years has shown, analysing the language of letters presents both a challenge and an opportunity to obtain access to as full a range of styles as would be possible for a period for which we only have access to the language in its written form. It is an area of study in which all the contributors have considerab…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-03911-658-4
- EAN: 9783039116584
- Produktnummer: 19586839
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 291 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.0 cm 425 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations
- Gewicht: 425
Über den Autor
The Editors: Marina Dossena is Professor of English Language at the University of Bergamo. Her research interests, on which she has published extensively, focus on the features and origins of British varieties of English and the history of specialized discourse. She is also the author of Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary, and is currently compiling a corpus of nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence in co-operation with Richard Dury. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has a Chair in English Socio-Historical Linguistics at the University of Leiden. Her research interests include historical social network analysis and the standardisation process (codification and prescription), on which she has published widely. She edits the internet journal Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics and is the director of the VICI research project 'The Codifiers and the English Language'.
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