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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778082503321

Autore

Tieken-Boon van Ostade Ingrid

Titolo

Introduction to late modern English [[electronic resource] /] / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-13645-3

9786612136450

0-7486-3130-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language

Disciplina

427

Soggetti

English language - 18th century

English language - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-159) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; To readers; 1 English in the Late Modern period; 2 Evidence of pronunciation; 3 Spelling systems; 4 Writers and the lexicon; 5 Grammar and grammars; 6 Language and social networks; 7 The language of letters and other text types; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that forms the tail end of the standardisation process (codification and prescription), during which important social changes such as the Industrial Revolution are reflected in the language. Late Modern English is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention, mainly as a result of new developments in sociohistorical linguistics and corpus linguisti