Text Types And The History Of English
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Text Types and the History of English
Author | : Manfred Görlach |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110197167 |
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The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types. Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960s onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at charting the field for the history and present-day situation of the English language. In text types, a designation is linked with a more or less stable form which guides the writer’s production as well as the reader's expectation, permitting one to recognize straightforward uses as well as deliberate misuses. Some two thousand of such designations are here listed with minimal definitions and dates for first occurrences. The discussion then concentrates on selected types, which are seen as especially illustrative for English: book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes. Their functions and development over time are treated in correlation with their specific linguistic characteristics and adaptations to different period styles and social changes in the readership. The functional range of text types in traditions outside England and the consequences of the export of English categories are exemplified by the history of Scots/Scottish English and of English in India. The arguments are accompanied by a lavish supply of textual excerpts and more than fifty pages of facsimiles, which are especially relevant for insights derived from typographical features. A full bibliography and indices are provided at the end. The book will prove useful for decisions on the constitution of representative text corpora and stimulate research into a greater number of individual text types as well as contrastive analyses at least among European languages.
Text Types and the History of English
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : OCLC:1347683951 |
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Text Types and Corpora
Author | : Andreas Fischer,Gunnel Tottie,Hans Martin Lehmann |
Publsiher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Computational linguistics |
ISBN | : 3823358804 |
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Towards a History of English as a History of Genres
Author | : Hans-Jürgen Diller,Manfred Görlach |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105110975369 |
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Historical Outlines from Sound to Text
Author | : Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110525281 |
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The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics, orthography, register, and standardization, among others.
History of Englishes
Author | : Matti Rissanen,Ossi Ihalainen,Terttu Nevalainen,Irma Taavitsainen |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 813 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110877007 |
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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
A History of the English Language
Author | : Elly van Gelderen |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027270436 |
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The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for Germanic has been added, Celtic influence is highlighted much more, there is more on the origin of Chancery English, and internal and external change are discussed in much greater detail. The philosophy of the revised book remains the same with an emphasis on the linguistic history and on using authentic texts. My audience remains undergraduates (and beginning graduates). The goals of the class and the book are to come to recognize English from various time periods, to be able to read each stage with a glossary, to get an understanding of typical language change, internal and external, and to understand something about language typology through the emphasis on the change from synthetic to analytic. This book has a companion website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.183.website
English Historical Linguistics 2008 Words texts and genres
Author | : Ursula Lenker,Hans Sauer,Judith Huber,Gaby Waxenberger,Robert Mailhammer |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027248428 |
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The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women's mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex. The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies.