Processes of Change

Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English

Editors

Sandra Jansen | University of Paderborn

Lucia Siebers | University of Regensburg

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The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present day. The volume presents a collection of in-depth studies on a broad spectrum of phonetic, lexical, grammatical and discourse variation, drawing on historical corpora, dictionaries, metalinguistic commentary, ego-documents, spoken language and survey data.

Apart from advancing our knowledge of processes of language change in varieties of English, including British English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, American English and Canadian English, the individual chapters contribute to the theoretical debates on variation and change in Late Modern as well as Present-day English.

[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.21

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii

Chapter 1. Introduction

Sandra Jansen | pp. 1–4

Part I. Processes of change in Late Modern English

Chapter 2. Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics

Joan C. Beal | pp. 7–24

Chapter 3. The obelisk and the asterisk: Early to Late Modern Views on Language and Change

Kate Burridge | pp. 1–14

Chapter 4. A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century British and Australian English

Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö | pp. 49–72

Chapter 5. ‘but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every respect than I have’ – Discourse marker sure in Irish English

Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno | pp. 73–94

Chapter 6. Scotland’s contribution to English vocabulary in Late Modern times

Marina Dossena | pp. 95–114

Chapter 7. Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled

Samantha Litty, Jennifer Mercer and Joseph Salmons | pp. 115–138

Chapter 8. African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: Processes of change in a transported dialect

Lucia Siebers | pp. 139–156

Part II. Processes of change in Present Day English

Chapter 9. Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice

Morana Lukač and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade | pp. 159–182

Chapter 10. The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish English

John M. Kirk | pp. 183–202

Chapter 11. Levelling processes and social changes in a peripheral community: Prevocalic /r/ in West Cumbria

Sandra Jansen | pp. 203–226

Chapter 12. The goose vowel in South African English with special reference to Coloured communities in 5 cities

Rajend Mesthrie and Simone Wills | pp. 227–246

Chapter 13. Borders and language

J. K. (Jack) Chambers | pp. 247–260

Index | pp. 261–263

“[T]his volume enlightens readers that neither descriptivism nor prescriptivism should be underestimated. The former is an intriguing language garden that abounds with plentiful flowers of dialects, and the latter represents humans’ endeavor to keep the linguistic world of chaos in order. These two notions are intertwined, and somewhere in the middle, the modern linguistic map has formed during the long course of history.”

Jie Hu,Zhejiang University, in Language in Society 49:2 (2020)

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