Sociolinguistics and Language History: Studies Based on the Corpus of Early English CorrespondenceTerttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg Rodopi, 1996 - 213 pàgines What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers. The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds. The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time. This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians. |
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The Corpus of Early English Correspondence | 39 |
Social stratification | 57 |
Gender difference | 77 |
Apparent time | 93 |
A case study | 111 |
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16th century address forms adjectives adverbial apparent-time Bacon Brilliana Harley CEEC Chamberlain Chancery Chancery English Chapter Corpus of Correspondence Corpus of Early diachronic dialect documents Dorothy Osborne Early English Correspondence Early Modern English evidential examples figures forms of address forthcoming frequencies gender grammaticalization Harington Heikkonen Helena Raumolin-Brunberg Helsinki Corpus Henry historical sociolinguistics Hoskyns impersonal included informants instance John Chamberlain Kytö Labov language change Late Medieval Late Middle literacy London lower gentry METHINKS METHOUGHT Middle English Milroy morphological Nathaniel Bacon Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg nobility non-gentry noun Otwell Johnson Oxinden Pepys period periphrastic phrase pronoun Raumolin-Brunberg relative Richard Cely Richard Johnson Rissanen Samuel Pepys Shiryngton shows Signet Letters social climbers social rank social stratification Society sociolinguistic standard Supplementary corpus Table text types THINK third person Thomas upper clergy upper gentry variant forms verb Verstegan women wool merchants words Wrightson writing
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Pàgina 14 - Central to our model is a highly abstract notion of 'face' which consists of two specific kinds of desires ('face-wants') attributed by interactants to one another: the desire to be unimpeded in one's actions (negative face), and the desire (in some respects) to be approved of (positive face).
Pàgina 15 - Not all variability and heterogeneity in language structure involves change; but all change involves variability and heterogeneity.
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Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use Douglas Biber,Susan Conrad,Randi Reppen Previsualització limitada - 1998 |
Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste),Helena Raumolin-Brunberg Visualització de fragments - 2003 |