The History of English in a Social Context : : A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics / / ed. by Arthur Mettinger, Dieter Kastovsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Blake, Norman,; Bruti, Silvia,; Culpeper, Jonathan,; Dalton-Puffer, Christiane,; Facchinetti, Roberta,; Fain, Margaret A.,; Horsbroch, Dauvit,; Kastovsky, Dieter,; Kytö, Merja,; Mazzon, Gabriella,; McConchie, Roderick W.,; Mettinger, Arthur,; Meurman-Solin, Anneli,; Millar, Robert McColl,; Nagle, Stephen J.,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Nurmi, Arja,; Pollner, Clausdirk,; Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena,; Sanders, Sara L.,; Smit, Ute,; Sönmez, Margaret J. -M.,; Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid,
• HerausgeberIn: Kastovsky, Dieter,; Mettinger, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 129
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (484 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Introduction -- 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-categorical 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 -- Fashionable idiolects? 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 -- 485-486