Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
Lucia Kornexl
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lucia Kornexl plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2019 What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited Norms and Conventions in the History of English, Bös, Birte and Claudia Claridge (eds.), pp. 99–128 | Chapter
Due to her untiring and constantly failing attempts to enhance her social standing by employing highly extravagant diction, Mrs Malaprop in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals (1775) has given her name to a specific type of lexical misapplication exploited for humorous effect. While her… read more
2015 Introduction Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse, Bös, Birte and Lucia Kornexl (eds.), pp. ix–xiv | Article
2008 Women and other 'small things': -ette as a feminine marker English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 241–257 | Article
Among the inventory of English nominal suffixes, -ette stands out as a relative latecomer with a rather limited productivity and a variety of meanings. Apart from small size, -ette can also indicate imitation or female sex, with the resultant formations often being classed as derogatory. This range… read more
2007 Zur Rolle der Morphologie in den zweisprachigen Wörterbücherndes Spätmittelenglischen Beiträge zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch, Fix, Hans (Hrsg.), pp. 173–191 | Article
2002 From gold-gifa to chimney sweep? Morphological (un)markedness of Modern English agent nouns in a diachronic perspective English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, Fanego, Teresa, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 111–129 | Article