Book Details
Orange Code:28115
Paperback:326 pages
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1. Corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches to linguistic analysis: one and the same?2. Quantitative corpus approaches to linguistic analysis: seven or eight levels of resolution and the lessons they teach us3. Profiling the English verb phrase over time: modal patterns4. On the functional change of desire in relation to hope and wish5. From medieval to modern: on the development of the adverbial connective considering (that)6. Spoken features of interjections in English dialect (based on Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary)7. Interjection-based delocutive verbs in the history of English8. Uh and um as planners in the Corpus of Historical American English9. Religious discourse and the history of English10. History, social meaning, and identity in the spoken English of postcolonial white Zimbabweans11. Singapore weblogs: between speech and writing12. Mergers, losses, and the spread of English13. Complex systems in the history of American English
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The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological, theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the history of the English language, and historical linguistics.
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