Bringing together research from Conversation Analysis and World Englishes for the first time, this novel book explores conversation in World Englishes, focusing on how turn-taking is organised in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English. It is essentia...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108836128)
Drawing on a range of case studies, this book presents the state of the art in research on non-canonical syntax across historical, register-based, and non-native varieties of English. It is essential reading for advanced students of English grammar...Daugiau...
This book presents a framework for analysing a major yet so far under-studied morphological phenomenon in Modern English, Combining Forms (CFs). Outlining four distinct categories of CFs, and providing examples of each, it is essential reading for r...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107155640)
This book explores the semantic-syntactic development of composite predicates (CPs) in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Large-scale corpus data reveal that the morphologically and semantically related simple verb (e.g. notice in the...Daugiau...
This pioneering study explores how the practices of quoting have shifted at parliamentary question time due to changing conventions and an evolving media landscape. It is aimed at scholars and students interested in linguistic change, reported speech...Daugiau...
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-182...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009208956)
How do language learners interact with those who already speak the language they are learning? It is more than just a question of learning vocabulary and grammars learners also need to learn how to put together conversations in their new language a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009423144)
Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book explores the function of charms in Early English by situating them in the historical and cultural environment of the period. It is essential reading for researchers and students of Old English, Medieval E...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Mar-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108428668)
Drawing on a rich bank of data from the Old Bailey Corpus, this groundbreaking book provides the first full study of intensifiers in Late Modern English. It shows how usage varies for a wide variety of reasons, making it essential reading for schola...Daugiau...
Based on authentic English-language material, and backed by the latest statistical methods, this book explores the impact of gender on linguistic choices in English-speaking countries worldwide, considering local social realities. It is essential rea...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Feb-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009237413)
Drawing on an extensive corpus-based study, this book explores theoretical and empirical discussions of stance research applied to data from Early Modern English. It also presents a new method for the study of pragmatic phenomena, making it essentia...Daugiau...
Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this para...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Sep-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009346870)
Based on a rich range of contemporary sources, this insightful and practical book provides a comprehensive description of borrowings in informal American English, including their donors, types, changes, functions, and themes. It features a glossary o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Aug-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316512722)
Research on sound change often focuses on vowels, yet consonantal sound change also offers fascinating insights into language development and variation. This pioneering book provides a detailed investigation of consonantal sound change in English, by...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Jul-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108830959)
Combining both qualitative and quantitative methods and juxtaposing two linguistic theories, this study provides an account of the function and development of evaluative of-binomials, an important phenomenon in the English language. Comprehensive in...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Apr-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108838023)
Bringing together research from Conversation Analysis and World Englishes for the first time, this novel book explores conversation in World Englishes, focusing on how turn-taking is organised in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English. It is essential...Daugiau...
This book develops a corpus-based, constructional model of speech acts, and shows how it can be implemented in teaching practice. Its critical review of current illocutionary theories and the varied range of practical activities that it offers will b...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Dec-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009168281)
Combining Forms (CFs) are a major morphological phenomenon in Modern English, yet while they have been discussed in some morphological literature, no full-length study has been devoted to this topic so far. This pioneering book addresses that gap by...Daugiau...
Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Scots texts undergo, as they are transmitted over time and space. The book argues that formal features su...Daugiau...
Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith, Carla Suhr
Serija: Studies in English Language
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Oct-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009100090)
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-182...Daugiau...
South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which...Daugiau...
Examines the influence that English has on German in German-speaking countries, looking at borrowings from English, the use of English in public spaces, how English is learned by native speakers of German, and the historical relationship between both...Daugiau...
A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Apr-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009098144)
The standardisation of English spelling that resulted from the advent of printing is one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of English. This pioneering book explores new avenues of investigation into spelling development by looking at the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Nov-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108474221)
Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this paradox by presenting a...Daugiau...
Ideal for researchers and students in English historical linguistics and syntax, this comprehensive study traces the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English. Based on large amounts of empirical evidence it shows the phra...Daugiau...
One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce novel grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Consequently, most linguists agree that the mental grammars of speakers are complex systems that must be mor...Daugiau...
An intensive overview of Mexican American English, linking it to the speech of other immigrant groups worldwide. This study is of particular interest to students and researchers in linguistics, as it provides insight into language contact, immigrant...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Sep-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108835978)
Language change in contemporary English represents a burgeoning field and has primarily been studied from a corpus-linguistic perspective since the mid-1990s (e.g., Hundt and Mair 1999; Leech et al. 2009; Mair 2006; Mair and Leech 2006). Despite rel...Daugiau...
A study of how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian speakers have been represented in British fiction. It explores the evolution of language ideologies and explains its computational techniques as part of a digital humanities toolkit. An ideal text...Daugiau...
