Sociolinguistics and Language History: Studies Based on the Corpus of Early English CorrespondenceTerttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg Rodopi, 1996 - 213 páginas What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers. The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds. The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time. This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians. |
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The Corpus of Early English Correspondence | 39 |
Social stratification | 57 |
Gender difference | 77 |
Apparent time | 93 |
A case study | 111 |
The rise and fall of METHINKS | 131 |
Interconnected | 151 |
Forms of address in early English correspondence | 167 |
Appendix | 183 |
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16th century address forms adjectives adverbial Anthony Cave apparent-time Bacon Brilliana Harley CEEC Chamberlain Chapter collections Corpus of Correspondence Corpus of Early dialect documents Dorothy Osborne Early English Correspondence Early Modern English examples figures forms of address frequencies gender grammaticalization Harington Helsinki Corpus historical sociolinguistics Hoskyns impersonal included informants instance John Chamberlain Kytö Labov language change Late Medieval Late Middle literacy London lord lower gentry material METHINKS METHOUGHT Middle English Milroy morphological Nathaniel Bacon Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg nobility non-gentry nouns Otwell Johnson Oxinden Pepys period periphrastic phrase pronoun relative Richard Cely Richard Johnson Richard Verstegan Rissanen Samuel Pepys scribes Shiryngton shows Signet Letters social climbers social rank social stratification Society sociolinguistic standard Stephen Gardiner strategies Supplementary corpus Table text types THINK third person Thomas upper clergy upper gentry variant forms verb Verstegan women wool merchants words writing YE/YOU
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