Table of contents
List of contributors
ix
Chapter 1.Voices of English: Tapping into records past and present
1
Part I.Early Modern English
Chapter 2.Pragmatic noise in Shakespeare’s plays
11
Chapter 3.Keywords that characterise Shakespeare’s (anti)heroes and villains
31
Chapter 4.Revealing speech: Agentivity in Iago’s and Othello’s soliloquies
47
Chapter 5.Saying, crying, replying, and continuing: Speech reporting expressions in Early Modern English
63
Chapter 6.Interjections in early popular literature: Stereotypes and innovation
79
Chapter 7.Godly vocabulary in Early Modern English religious debate
95
Chapter 8.
Patterns of reader involvement on sixteenth-century English title pages, with
special reference to second-person pronouns
113
Part II.Late Modern English
Chapter 9.Epistemic adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus
133
Chapter 10.Question strategies in the Old Bailey Corpus
153
Chapter 11.
Sure in Irish English: The diachrony of a pragmatic marker
173
Chapter 12.American English gotten
: Historical retention, change from below, or something else?
187
Part III.Present-day English
Chapter 13.Explaining explanatory so
207
Chapter 14.Return to the future: Exploring spoken language in the BNC and BNC2014
227
Chapter 15.
Sort of and kind of from an English-Swedish perspective
247
Chapter 16.From yes to innit
: Origin, development and general characteristics of pragmatic markers
265
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
283
Chapter 18.Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction
301
Chapter 19.Orality on the searchable web: A comparison of involved web registers and face-to-face conversation
317
Selected list of publications by Merja Kytö
337
Index
347
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