Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts

In honor of Merja Kytö

Editors

Ewa Jonsson | Uppsala University

Tove Larsson | Uppsala University | University of Louvain

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ISBN 9789027207654 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The studies offer new insights into historical and present-day corpus pragmatics by identifying and exploring features of orality in a variety of registers. For readers who are new to the field, the range of approaches will provide a helpful overview; for readers who are already familiar with the field, the volume will shed light on the complexity of factors such as register, sociolinguistic variability and language attitude, thus making it a useful resource and stepping stone for further exploration. The volume celebrates the groundbreaking contributions of Professor Merja Kytö in making accessible speech-related corpus material and leading the way in its exploration.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] 2020. xiii, 348 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 15 September 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.97

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. ix–x

Foreword

Jonathan Culpeper | pp. xi–xiv

Chapter 1. Voices of English: Tapping into records past and present

Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson | pp. 1–8

Part I. Early Modern English

Chapter 2. Pragmatic noise in Shakespeare’s plays

Jonathan Culpeper and Samuel J. Oliver | pp. 11–30

Chapter 3. Keywords that characterise Shakespeare’s (anti)heroes and villains

Dawn Archer and Alison Findlay | pp. 31–46

Chapter 4. Revealing speech: Agentivity in Iago’s and Othello’s soliloquies

Juhani Rudanko | pp. 47–62

Chapter 5. Saying, crying, replying, and continuing: Speech reporting expressions in Early Modern English

Terry Walker and Peter J. Grund | pp. 63–78

Chapter 6. Interjections in early popular literature: Stereotypes and innovation

Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 79–94

Chapter 7. Godly vocabulary in Early Modern English religious debate

Jeremy J. Smith | pp. 95–112

Chapter 8. Patterns of reader involvement on sixteenth-century English title pages, with special reference to second-person pronouns

Matti Peikola | pp. 113–130

Part II. Late Modern English

Chapter 9. Epistemic adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus

Claudia Claridge | pp. 133–152

Chapter 10. Question strategies in the Old Bailey Corpus

Patricia Ronan | pp. 153–172

Chapter 11. Sure in Irish English: The diachrony of a pragmatic marker

Raymond Hickey | pp. 173–186

Chapter 12. American English gotten : Historical retention, change from below, or something else?

Lieselotte Anderwald | pp. 187–204

Part III. Present-day English

Chapter 13. Explaining explanatory so

David Denison | pp. 207–226

Chapter 14. Return to the future: Exploring spoken language in the BNC and BNC2014

Ylva Berglund Prytz | pp. 227–246

Chapter 15. Sort of and kind of from an English-Swedish perspective

Karin Aijmer | pp. 247–264

Chapter 16. From yes to innit : Origin, development and general characteristics of pragmatic markers

Anna-Brita Stenström | pp. 265–282

Chapter 17. “If anyone would have told me, I would have not believed it”: Using corpora to question assumptions about spoken vs. written grammar in EFL grammars and other normative works

Sarah Schwarz and Erik Smitterberg | pp. 283–300

Chapter 18. Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction

Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård | pp. 301–316

Chapter 19. Orality on the searchable web: A comparison of involved web registers and face-to-face conversation

Douglas Biber and Jesse Egbert | pp. 317–336

Selected list of publications by Merja Kytö | pp. 337–346

Index

Cited by (2)

Cited by two other publications

GRUND, PETER J.

2023. Disgusting, obscene and aggravating language: speech descriptors and the sociopragmatic evaluation of speech in theOld Bailey Corpus. English Language and Linguistics 27:3 ► pp. 517 ff.

Kostadinova, Viktorija, Marco Wiemann, Gea Dreschler, Sune Gregersen, Beáta Gyuris, Ai Zhong, Lieselotte Anderwald, Beke Hansen, Sven Leuckert, Tihana Kraš, Shawnea Sum Pok Ting, Ida Parise, Alessia Cogo & Elisabeth Reber

2023. IEnglish Language. The Year's Work in English Studies 101:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

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