Language Contact and the History of English: Processes and Effects on Specific Text-Types

ISBN-13: 9783631846629 / Angielski

Gabriella Mazzon

Opis

The focus is on the history of contacts between English and other languages and on their effects, and especially on lexical innovation and its effects on the English vocabulary. The volume is a contribution to studies on the history of English, with special attention to language contact as cultural contact, particularly in specific text types.

Spis treści

Gabriella Mazzon -Introduction - Herbert Schendl , Philip Durkin & Gisle Anderson-Systemic effects of lexical contact- Valeria di Clemente , Letizia Vezzosi & Julia Landmann - Borrowing and ideology - Louise Sylvester, Megan Tiddeman , Richard Ingham , Stefan Dollinger , Alexandra Doherty , Giovanni Iamartino , Lucia Berti & Gabriella Mazzon - Language contact and cultural contact

O autorze

Gabriella Mazzon was born in Naples, Italy. She has worked in various Italian universities and is full professor of English linguistics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria since 2011. She has published extensively on varieties of English and the use of English in post-colonial contexts, on English negation and on historical (socio)pragmatics, especially terms of address, discourse markers, modality, stance in correspondence and dramatic dialogue.