The Subjunctive In The Age Of Prescriptivism
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The Subjunctive In The Age Of Prescriptivism
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Author : A. Auer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-12-19
The Subjunctive In The Age Of Prescriptivism written by A. Auer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage (corpus study) allows the evaluation of the influence of prescriptivism on language change.
Describing Prescriptivism
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Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Describing Prescriptivism written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic, featuring: a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides over the years; an authoritative comparison of this advice with actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database – developed specifically to enable this line of study – as well as more mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC; a close analysis of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging the Unbridgeable" research project’s blog.* With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, the history of English and sociolinguistics. *Found at https://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/
New Horizons In Prescriptivism Research
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Author : Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza
language : en
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Release Date : 2024-04-16
New Horizons In Prescriptivism Research written by Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza and has been published by Channel View Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the practice of prescriptivism. The chapters cover three main areas: language, which represents the traditional roots of the study of linguistic norms in authoritative (historical) manuals and judgemental attitudes to language usage; literary and scripted texts, which illustrates the enregisterment of the values of linguistic prescriptivism as a social and cultural phenomenon; and speech communities, which reflects the growth in scope of the field to consider geographical contexts beyond mainstream British and American English to include varieties of English and other languages worldwide. The book also discusses recent theoretical and methodological advances in the study of prescriptivism.
Syntax Style And Grammatical Norms
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Author : Christiane Dalton-Puffer
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
Syntax Style And Grammatical Norms written by Christiane Dalton-Puffer and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.
"A selection of papers from the 13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), which took place from 24-28 August 2004 at the University of Vienna"--P. [7].
From Data To Evidence In English Language Research
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Author : Carla Suhr
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-07
From Data To Evidence In English Language Research written by Carla Suhr and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
From Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.
The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of English
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Author : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of English written by Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste) and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.
The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of English
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Author : Terttu Nevalainen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-10
The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of English written by Terttu Nevalainen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.
Language Between Description And Prescription
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Author : Lieselotte Anderwald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-02
Language Between Description And Prescription written by Lieselotte Anderwald and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates whether grammar writers of the time noticed the language changing around them, and how they reacted. In particular, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not all features undergoing change were noticed in the first place, those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized, and some recessive features were not upheld as correct. The features investigated come from the verb phrase and include in particular variable past tense forms, which -although noticed-often went uncommented, and where variation was acknowledged; the decline of the be-perfect, where the older form (the be-perfect) was criticized emphatically, and corrected; the rise of the progressive, which was embraced enthusiastically, and which was even upheld as a symbol of national superiority, at least in Britain; the rise of the progressive passive, which was one of the most violently hated constructions of the time, and the rise of the get-passive, which was only rarely commented on, and even more rarely in negative terms. Throughout the book, nineteenth-century grammarians are given a voice, and the discussions in grammar books of the time are portrayed. The book's quantitative approach makes it possible to examine majority and minority positions in the discourse community of nineteenth-century grammar writers, and the changes in accepted opinion over time. The terms of the debate are also investigated, and linked to the wider cultural climate of the time. Although grammar writing in the nineteenth century was very openly prescriptivist, the studies in this book show that many prescriptive dicta contained interesting grains of descriptive detail, and that eventually prescriptivism had only a small-scale, short-term effect on the actual language used.
The Challenge Of Change
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Author : Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
language : en
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2018-09-10
The Challenge Of Change written by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and has been published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Change is a powerful idea which inspires hope and fear, excitement and dread. From the panta rhei of Heraclitus to Darwinian evolutionary theory, nobel laureate Bob Dylans The times they are a-changin, the Obama campaign slogan Change we can believe in, and the current advertising mantra change is good, it recurs as a challenge to the status quo. The present volume contains essays on the topic of change in English language, literature and culture. Some are based on papers presented at the 2017 SAUTE conference, which took place at the Université de Neuchâtel, while others have been specially written for this volume.
Linguistics And Literary History
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Author : Anita Auer
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Linguistics And Literary History written by Anita Auer and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive and interpretative levels. This unique combination makes this volume on historical stylistics an important work for international scholars and postgraduate students working on the interface between literary history and language change, both from corpus-based and qualitative perspectives. The chapters written by leading scholars in these various fields are an appropriate reference work for teaching and research purposes in the areas of stylistics, historical linguistics, English language and literature, corpus linguistics and literary history.