Research Catalog

Title

Developments in English : expanding electronic evidence / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki ; Merja Kytö, Uppsala University ; Claudia Claridge, University of Duisburg-Essen ; Jeremy Smith, University of Glasgow ; with the assistance of Jukka Tuominen.

Author

International Association of University Professors of English. Conference (21st : 2010 : University of Malta)

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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• Cover image
• Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Additional Authors

Taavitsainen, Irma

Description

xxiii, 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "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"--
• "This book has its origin at the IAUPE (International Association of University Professors in English) conference in Malta, 19-23 July 2010, where we combined the sections of 'Corpus Linguistics' and 'History of English' into a "conference within a conference" that lasted for several days. The papers proved so inspiring and exciting"--

Series Statement

Studies in English language

Uniform Title

Studies in English language.

Subjects

• English language
• English language > History > Congresses
• History
• Sprachentwicklung
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. English in the digital age. General introduction / Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kyto, Claudia Claridge and Jeremy Smith -- Part I: Linguistic Directions and Crossroads : Mapping the Routes / Merja Kyto. 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 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.

Call Number

JFE 16-8169

ISBN

• 9781107038509
• 1107038502

LCCN

• 2014009760
• 40024292356

OCLC

877850823

Author

International Association of University Professors of English. Conference (21st : 2010 : University of Malta)

Title

Developments in English : expanding electronic evidence / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki ; Merja Kytö, Uppsala University ; Claudia Claridge, University of Duisburg-Essen ; Jeremy Smith, University of Glasgow ; with the assistance of Jukka Tuominen.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in English language

Studies in English language.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Cover image

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Added Author

Taavitsainen, Irma, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40024292356

Research Call Number

JFE 16-8169