Norms and conventions in the history of English

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Other Authors: Bös, Birte, 1974-, Claridge, Claudia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019.
Series:Current issues in linguistic theory, 347
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.