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An Introduction to Late Modern English
Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
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Description for An Introduction to Late Modern English
Paperback. An introduction to Late Modern English. Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language. Num Pages: 176 pages, none. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; CF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that forms the tail end of the standardisation process (codification and prescription), during which important social changes such as the Industrial Revolution are reflected in the language. Late Modern English is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention, mainly as a result of new developments in sociohistorical linguistics and corpus linguistics. By drawing on such research the present ... Read more
Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that forms the tail end of the standardisation process (codification and prescription), during which important social changes such as the Industrial Revolution are reflected in the language. Late Modern English is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention, mainly as a result of new developments in sociohistorical linguistics and corpus linguistics. By drawing on such research the present ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748625987
SKU
V9780748625987
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About Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has a chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She is the director of a VICI research project called The Codifiers and the English Language: Tracing the Norms of Standard English.
Reviews for An Introduction to Late Modern English
This textbook offers a very useful and stimulating introduction to a long neglected period in the history of the English language. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade draws on her own extensive research in the field and research in projects supervised by her which have produced fascinating insights.
Svenja Kranich LINGUIST list Her textbook is therefore a welcome introduction to the ... Read more
Svenja Kranich LINGUIST list Her textbook is therefore a welcome introduction to the ... Read more