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8 produkter
Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse
Av Taavitsainen Irma Taavitsainen, Hiltunen Turo Hiltunen
E-bok, 2022
1393 kr
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The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for …
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English
Literary and linguistic approaches
Av Taavitsainen Irma Taavitsainen, Jucker Andreas H. Jucker
E-bok, 2020
1343 kr
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This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the …
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Av Taavitsainen Irma Taavitsainen, Ratia Maura Ratia m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1393 kr
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The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like …
Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Av Tuominen Jukka Tuominen, Jucker Andreas H. Jucker m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1343 kr
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Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire …
Dynamics of Linguistic Variation
Corpus evidence on English past and present
Av Korhonen Minna Korhonen, Pahta Paivi Pahta m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
1477 kr
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Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the 'life cycle' of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide …
Speech Acts in the History of English
Av Taavitsainen Irma Taavitsainen, Jucker Andreas H. Jucker
E-bok, 2008
1477 kr
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Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies …
Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems
Av Jucker Andreas H. Jucker, Taavitsainen Irma Taavitsainen
E-bok, 2003
1830 kr
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Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for …
Writing in Nonstandard English
Av Pahta Paivi Pahta, Melchers Gunnel Melchers m. fl.
E-bok, 2000
1762 kr
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This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to …
