The History of English in a Social Context: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics

by Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger

Overview

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110167078
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	11/23/2000
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series , #129
Edition description:	Reprint 2011
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.13(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Excellent in Shakespeare	1
	Address pronouns in Shakespeare's English: a re-appraisal in terms of markedness	25
	Gender voices in the spoken interaction of the past: a pilot study based on Early Modern English trial proceedings	53
	Is there a social element in English word-stress? Explorations into a non-categorial treatment of English stress: a long-term view	91
	The modal verb shall between grammar and usage in the nineteenth century	115
	Social relations and forms of address in the Canterbury Tales	135
	Covert and overt language attitudes to the Scots tongue expressed in the Statistical accounts of Scotland	169
	Fashionable idiolects? The use of the negative prefix dis- 1520-1620	199
	On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots	227
	The influence of political correctness on lexical and grammatical change in late-twentieth-century English	257
	The changing role of London on the linguistic map of Tudor and Stuart England	279
	The rise and regulation of periphrastic do in negative declarative sentences: a sociolinguistic study	339
	Shibboleths galore: the treatment of Irish and Scottish English in histories of the English language	363
	Ethnolinguistic identity as common denominator: a socio-historical investigation of the lexical items for 'people' in South African English	377
	Perceived and real differences between men's and women's spellings of the early to mid-seventeenth century	405
	Sociohistorical linguistics and the observer's paradox	441
	Index of subjects	463
	Index of authors	477

Editorial Reviews

Kastovsky and Mettinger introduce 16 papers which were originally presented at either the HESCO conference in Tulln or the ESSE conference in Debrecen, Hungary (both September, 1997). The contributions cover such topics as forms of address, spelling and pronunciation, lexis, language attitudes, and auxiliaries. Varieties of English discussed include British English, American English, Scots, and South African English. The majority of the papers deals with the Early Modern English period, while others examine Middle English and Modern English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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