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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820889803321

Titolo

Norms and conventions in the history of English / / edited by Birte Bös, Claudia Claridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-272-6246-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; Volume 347

Disciplina

306.44221

Soggetti

English language - Standardization

English language - Grammar, Historical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Linguistic norms and conventions: past and present / Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge -- Usage guides and the age of prescriptivism / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- "Splendidly prejudiced": words for disapproval in English usage books / Don Chapman -- Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing: a network of texts and authors / Beatrix Busse, Kirsten Gather and Ingo Kleiber -- Promotional conventions on English title-pages up to 1550: modifiers of time, scope, and quality / Mari-liisa Varila and Matti Peikola -- What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited / Lucia Kornexl -- The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: a usage-based view / Claudia lkert -- Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts / Martti Mäkinen -- Pragmatic and formulaic uses of shall and will in older Scots and early modern English official letter writing / Christine Elsweiler -- Studying dialect spelling in its own right: suggestions from a case study / Gan Wolf.