The History of English in a Social Context

A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics

Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger, Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110167078
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110810301
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Grammar & Punctuation
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Excellent in Shakespeare
• Address pronouns in Shakespeare’s English: a re-appraisal in terms of markedness
• Gender voices in the spoken interaction of the past: a pilot study based on Early Modern English trial proceedings
• Is there a social element in English word-stress? Explorations into a non-categorial treatment of English stress: a long-term view
• The modal verb shall between grammar and usage in the nineteenth century
• Social relations and forms of address in the Canterbury Tales
• Covert and overt language attitudes to the Scots tongue expressed in the Statistical accounts of Scotland
• The use of the negative prefix dis- 1520–1620
• On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots
• The influence of political correctness on lexical and grammatical change in late-twentieth-century English
• The changing role of London on the linguistic map of Tudor and Stuart England
• The rise and regulation of periphrastic do in negative declarative sentences: a sociolinguistic study
• Shibboleths galore: the treatment of Irish and Scottish English in histories of the English language
• Ethnolinguistic identity as common denominator: a socio-historical investigation of the lexical items for ‘people’ in South African English
• Perceived and real differences between men’s and women’s spellings of the early to mid-seventeenth century
• Sociohistorical linguistics and the observer’s paradox
• Index of subjects
• Index of authors