Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
Edited by Marina Dossena
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp.
Marina Dossena
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marina Dossena plays a role.
Titles
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe
Edited by Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology
Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295] 2008. xiv, 259 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology & Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change & Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English (3 vols. set)
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295-297] 2008. ca. 760 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change
Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Pragmatics | Semantics
Articles
2022. “Gems of elocution and humour”: Ideology, prescription and (self-)educational materials. Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 183–202
Recommended usage of linguistic forms has often been based on ideological tenets, such as in the case of early American English, when attention was paid to its patriotic value. Ideology is found in grammars, dictionaries, and in other more popular genres, the relatively low cost of which made them… read more | Chapter
2019. Chapter 6. “With kindest regards”: Relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in Late Modern English documents. Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 197–218
In Late Modern times, both usage guides and letter-writing manuals commented on language etiquette, providing guidance on how to address specific recipients according to their rank, age, and gender, how to approach certain topics, and how to convey mutual status relying exclusively on language.… read more | Chapter
2019. Chapter 6. Scotland’s contribution to English vocabulary in Late Modern times. Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 95–114
This chapter discusses some nineteenth-century Scottish authors, lexicographers, and periodicals that are frequently cited as sources in the Oxford English Dictionary, in order to assess their role in the expansion of English vocabulary that occurred throughout Late Modern times. As these citations… read more | Chapter
2019. The Prince and the Sassenach: Constructing group homogeneity through labels (and anachronisms) in Late Modern times and beyond. Reference and Identity in Public Discourses, Lutzky, Ursula and Minna Nevala (eds.), pp. 43–65
In political communication group identity construal is often oversimplified: the supposed homogeneity of individual groups is emphasized, while their mutual antagonism is highlighted. This phenomenon also has considerable time depth and even influences the historical (re)construction and… read more | Chapter
2019. Chapter 2. “There were always Indians passing to and fro”: Notes on the representation of Native Americans in CHET documents. Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus, Moskowich, Isabel, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco (eds.), pp. 22–39
Chapter
2019. Chapter 4. Singular, plural, or collective? Grammatical flexibility and the definition of identity in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants. Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 67–84
Emigrants’ letters have finally become the object of linguistic investigation since language historians have joined historians in their study of correspondence as a valuable research tool. In historical sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics, in particular, letters have proved useful in studies… read more | Chapter
2016. On the shoulders of giants: An overview on the discussion of science and philosophy in Late Modern times. 'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy, Moskowich, Isabel, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo (eds.), pp. 77–97
Article
2015. “Across the ocean ferry”: Point of view, description and evaluation in nineteenth-century narrations of ocean crossings. Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.), pp. 117–134
This contribution aims to outline the main ways in which solidarity is elicited in nineteenth-century narratives of ocean crossings. In addition to materials transcribed for the Corpus of Nineteenth-century Scottish Correspondence (19CSC) and those available in the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing… read more | Article
2015. Introduction. Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.), pp. 1–12
Article
2014. Chapter 9. “There is reason to believe however…”: The construction of trust in Late Modern English correspondence and non-literary prose. Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives, Pelsmaekers, Katja, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo (eds.), pp. 181–200
Article
2013. Mixing genres and reinforcing community ties in nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence: Formality, familiarity and religious discourse. Communities of Practice in the History of English, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 47–60
Article
2012. “I write you these few lines”: Metacommunication and pragmatics
in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants’ letters. Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 45–64
Article
2012. The study of correspondence: Theoretical and methodological issues. Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 13–30
Language, be it remember’d, is not an abstract construction of the learn’d, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its final decisions are made… read more | Article
2012. Introduction. Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 1–12
Article
2010. Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence. Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 191–209
This paper analyzes the main strategies employed by encoders of nineteenth-century business letters to encourage the trust of the recipient or to show their trust in the recipient’s skills and qualities, so that successful business relationships may develop. Relying on the sample of business… read more | Article
2008. Introduction. English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (eds.), pp. ix–xiv
Miscellaneous
2003. Scots. Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 383–404
Article
2002. Review of Vihla ((1999)): Medical Writing - Modality in Focus. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:1, pp. 110–114
Review