Norms and conventions in the history of English / [edited by] Birte Bös, Claudia Claridge.

Other author Bös, Birte, 1974-
Other author Claridge, Claudia.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
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SeriesCurrent issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; 347
Contents Linguistic norms and conventions: past and present / Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge -- Usage guides and the age of prescriptivism / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- "Splendidly prejudiced": words for disapproval in English usage books / Don Chapman -- Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing: a network of texts and authors / Beatrix Busse, Kirsten Gather and Ingo Kleiber -- Promotional conventions on English title-pages up to 1550: modifiers of time, scope, and quality / Mari-liisa Varila and Matti Peikola -- What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited / Lucia Kornexl -- The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: a usage-based view / Claudia lkert -- Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts / Martti Mäkinen -- Pragmatic and formulaic uses of shall and will in older Scots and early modern English official letter writing / Christine Elsweiler -- Studying dialect spelling in its own right: suggestions from a case study / Gan Wolf.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Norms and conventions in the history of English Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] 9789027203243
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LCCN 2019012134
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