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

• Autore: Tieken-Boon van Ostade Ingrid
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 427
• Soggetto topico: English language - 18th century; English language - 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Introduction to late modern English
• ISBN: 1-282-13645-3; 9786612136450; 0-7486-3130-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455538803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.