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| Author | : Laurie Bauer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2014-06-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1317894057 |
Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard English and takes a historical rather than sociolinguistic view of the changes which have occurred.
| Author | : Kate Fox |
| Publisher | : Nicholas Brealey |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2014-07-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1857889177 |
Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.
| Author | : Frederick Bodmer |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 724 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780393300345 |
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
| Author | : David Friend |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2011-08-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0312591489 |
Relates the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand the unimaginable.
| Author | : Keith Allan |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2020-08-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9811564302 |
This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives. With in-depth case studies from all around the world, it uses diverse approaches across sociolinguistics and historical linguistics to answer questions such as: How and why do language changes begin?; how do language changes spread?; and how can they ultimately be explained? Each chapter explores a different component of language change, including typology, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, lexicology, discourse strategies, diachronic change, synchronic change, how the deafblind modify sign language, and the accommodation of language to song. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of language change over time, simultaneously advancing current research and suggesting new directions in sociolinguistic and historical linguistic approaches.
| Author | : Anna Rosen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2014-04-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902727052X |
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the relationships between language and identity.
| Author | : Sali Tagliamonte |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 052186321X |
A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English's development.
| Author | : Christian Mair |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2006-10-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139459627 |
Standard English has evolved and developed in many ways over the past hundred years. From pronunciation to vocabulary to grammar, this concise survey clearly documents the recent history of Standard English. Drawing on large amounts of authentic corpus data, it shows how we can track ongoing changes to the language, and demonstrates each of the major developments that have taken place. As well as taking insights from a vast body of literature, Christian Mair presents the results of his own cutting-edge research, revealing some important changes which have not been previously documented. He concludes by exploring how social and cultural factors, such as the American influence on British English, have affected Standard English in recent times. Authoritative, informative and engaging, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in language change in progress, particularly those working on English, and will be welcomed by students, researchers and language teachers alike.
| Author | : Hadumod Bussmann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1336 |
| Release | : 2006-02-20 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1134630387 |
The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics.
| Author | : Andreas Sedlatschek |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2009-04-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027290121 |
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the International Corpus of English), this book explores the dynamics of variation and change in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary Indian English. The aims are to document the extent of lexical and grammatical nativization at the beginning of the twenty-first century and compare contemporary Indian English to other varieties around the world (for example British and American English). The results are relevant to sociolinguists, variationists and lexicologists seeking to investigate ongoing language change in emerging standard varieties of English. With its strong empirical foundation and its comparative outlook, the book is also of interest to anyone looking for an introduction to the corpus-based description of varieties of English.
