Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson
Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.
Jane Hodson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jane Hodson plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Articles
2016. Introduction. Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 1–12
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2016. Chapter 8. Jane Austen and the prescriptivists. Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 151–170
In contradistinction to interpretations that have positioned Austen as the
epitome of a fixed and finished style, in this chapter I position her as an author
who was writing at a time of considerable linguistic and stylistic change. In
order to do so, I take both a micro- and a macro-linguistic… read more | Article
2006. New approaches to the study of later modern English. New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 1–9
Introduction
2006. The problem of Joseph Priestley’s (1733–1804) descriptivism. New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 57–84
Joseph Priestley’s (1733–1804) Rudiments of English Grammar (1761, second revised edition 1768) has often been interpreted as demonstrating that, unlike most 18th-century grammarians, Priestley took a descriptive approach towards the study of language. This article argues that such a… read more | Article