Patterns of Change in 18th-century English. A sociolinguistic approach
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -s...
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| author | Minna Palander-Collin Tanja Säily Terttu Nevalainen |
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| description | Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -sand the progressive aspect, and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have been minimal. The studies are contextualized by discussions of the normative tradition and the correspondence corpus, and of eighteenth-century English society and culture. Basing their work on a variationist sociolinguistic approach, the authors introduce the models and methods they have used to trace the progress of linguistic changes in the “long” eighteenth century, 1680–1800. Aggregate findings are balanced by analysing individuals and their varying participation in these processes. The final chapter places these results in a wider context and considers them in relation to past sociolinguistic work. One of the major findings of the studies is that in most cases the overall pace of change was slow. Factors retarding change include speaker evaluation and repurposing outgoing features, in particular, for certain styles and registers. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-558292023-12-20T18:09:20Z Patterns of Change in 18th-century English. A sociolinguistic approach Minna Palander-Collin Tanja Säily Terttu Nevalainen PE1-3729 Sociolinguistics English linguistics Historical linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSY Children’s & teenage literature studies Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -sand the progressive aspect, and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have been minimal. The studies are contextualized by discussions of the normative tradition and the correspondence corpus, and of eighteenth-century English society and culture. Basing their work on a variationist sociolinguistic approach, the authors introduce the models and methods they have used to trace the progress of linguistic changes in the “long” eighteenth century, 1680–1800. Aggregate findings are balanced by analysing individuals and their varying participation in these processes. The final chapter places these results in a wider context and considers them in relation to past sociolinguistic work. One of the major findings of the studies is that in most cases the overall pace of change was slow. Factors retarding change include speaker evaluation and repurposing outgoing features, in particular, for certain styles and registers. 2021-02-11T22:23:39Z 2021-02-11T22:23:39Z 2018-08-24 14:35:22 2018 book 27495 2214-1057 9789027263834 9789027201034 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/55829 eng Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027263834 https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.8 John Benjamins Publishing Company 10.1075/ahs.8 10.1075/ahs.8 a0ecc02e-9674-41da-98fe-e7842d79279a 9789027263834 9789027201034 323 open access |
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