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

• Machine generated contents note: 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 Th. 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.

Ämnesord

English language  -- History -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Engelska språket  -- historia (sao)

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Konferens  (saogf)

Klassifikation

PE23 (LCC)

LAN (ämneskategori)

420 (DDC)

LAN009010 (bisacsh)

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