Table of contents
Acknowledgements
VII
Introduction: Corpora and the changing society
IX
Part I.Changing society
The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change
3
Changes in society and language: Charting poverty
29
Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500–1800
57
Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world
change
79
From burden to threat: A diachronic study of language ideology and migrant representation in the British
press
113
Part II.Changing language
That’s absolutely fine: An investigation of absolutely in the spoken BNC2014
143
Two sides of the same coin? Tracking the history of the intensifiers deadly and
mortal
169
So-called -ingly adverbs in Late Middle and Early Modern
English
199
Analyzing change in the American English amplifier system in the fiction
genre
223
The development and pragmatic function of a non-inference marker: That is not to say (that)
251
Changes in transitivity and reflexive uses of sit
(me/myself down) in Early and Late Modern
English
277
Index
303
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