29.4023, Books: Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: Nevalainen, Palander-Collin, Säily (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:01:42
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: Nevalainen, Palander-Collin, Säily (eds.)

 


Title: Patterns of Change in 18th-century English 
Subtitle: A sociolinguistic approach 
Series Title: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 8  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ahs.8 


Editor: Terttu Nevalainen
Editor: Minna Palander-Collin
Editor: Tanja Säily

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263834 Pages: 311 Price: U.S. $ 0 Comment: Open Access
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201034 Pages: 311 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201034 Pages: 311 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201034 Pages: 311 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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" and 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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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