Historical Spoken Language Research: Corpus Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367594695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Ivor Timmis

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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