Insights into late modern English
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Insights into late modern English
（Linguistic insights : studies in language and communication, v. 7）
Peter Lang, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references
Papers and lectures from the 1st International Conference on Late Modern English, University of Edinburgh, August 2001
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Description
This volume includes fifteen papers focussing on three important aspects of the history of English in Britain and overseas since the eighteenth century: the grammatical tradition of prescriptivism, syntactic developments and sociolinguistic factors affecting language variation. Within these areas, methodological approaches include those relating to corpus linguistics, social network theory, the investigation of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective, and lexicography. The individual sections are highly cohesive with each other, as the ideological considerations on which the prescriptive tradition was founded are underpinned by sociological factors. Theoretical contributions appear alongside 'case studies' in which instances of specific usage are investigated.
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