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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.44221
• Soggetto topico: English language - Standardization; English language - Grammar, Historical
• Persona (resp. second.): ClaridgeClaudia; BösBirte <1974->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Norms and conventions in the history of English
• ISBN: 90-272-6246-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820889803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; Volume 347.