Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in English, laying the foundation for Modern Standard English.

This revised edition of Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg s ground-breaking work:

• discusses the grammatical developments that shaped English in the early modern period;
• presents the...

Historical Corpus Research on Spoken Language shows how a historical spoken corpus can illuminate the nature of spoken language as well as the attitudes, values and behaviour of a specific community represented in a corpus.

Utilising a corpus featuring data compiled during a sociological and anthropological study of the Bolton working class, 1937-1940, this data provides insightful evidence about dialect use in society. Showing how information on informal spoken language can still be gathered and examined from material collected before the advent of sophisticated recording equipment and...

This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions. In this study that carefully compares the "special grammar" of oral traditions to the "grammar" of everyday conversation as understood in the field of conversation analysis, Raymond Person demonstrates that traditional phraseology, including formulaic language, is an...

Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual self-definition. Now, as the revolution once wrought by the printed word gives way to the digital age, many fear that the art of writing, and the nuanced thinking nurtured by writing, are under...

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offers an in-depth study of the growth of vocabulary through literature and social interaction, bringing out the fact that it is chiefly words that foreign influence has affected -- leaving sentence structure almost unaltered. Isolative and combinative changes in phonology, the accidence of nouns and plurals, pronouns and adverbs, and verbs are also examined in detail, along with a general overview of the features Middle English and a brief outline...

Ich liebe dich et "I love thee": ces deux phrases, allemande et anglaise, sont constituees de couples de mots, tels que liebe et "love," qui sont homologues, c'est-a-dire issus d'un ancetre germanique commun. Ce parallele illustre la proximite de l'allemand et de l'anglais mais aussi leurs differences. Ainsi "I love thee," frequent chez Shakespeare, a ete remplace par l'expression moderne "I love you."

Le but de ce livre est de mettre en evidence les similarites de l'allemand et de l'anglais, en comparant systematiquement leurs grammaires et leurs lexiques. En particulier, des regles de...