Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

Name: Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
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Erschienen am 15. Februar 2015

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Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
References
Studying real-time change in the adverbial subjunctive: The value of the Bank of Canadian English
1. Introduction
2. Bank of Canadian English (BCE)
3. A case study: The subjunctive in adverbial clauses
4. Conclusion
References
Political perspectives on linguistic innovation in independent America: Learning from the libraries
1. Introduction
2. English language texts in Jefferson's book collections
3. Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia (1785): One American's neologisms
4. Jefferson as potential linguistic patron
5. Conclusion: The populist scholar
References
Five Hundred Mistakes Corrected: An early American English usage guide
1. Introduction
2. Usage guides and usage problems
3. The author of Five hundred mistakes
4. The book's contents
5. The usage items' selection process
6. Conclusion
References
Transatlantic perspectives on late nineteenth-century English usage: Alford (1864) compared to White
1. Introduction
2. Alford, The Queen's English
3. White, Words and their Uses
4. Conclusion
References
"Provincial in England, but in common use with us": John R. Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms an
1. Introduction
2. A brief overview of the EDD sources
3. John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms (1848): A descriptive account
4. Bartlett's DOA and the EDD
5. Concluding remarks
References
"Across the ocean ferry": Point of view, description and evaluation in nineteenth-century narrations
1. Introduction
2. The language of description and participation
3. Concluding remarks
References
Legitimising linguistic devices in A Cheering Voice from Upper Canada (1834)
1. Introduction
2. Some notes on A Cheering Voice from Upper Canada
3. A framework for the analysis of stancetaking devices
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
References
Nineteenth-century institutional (im)politeness: Responses of the Colonial Office to letters from Wi
1. Introduction
2. The Colonial Office and the Cape Colony settlement plan
3. Theory and method
4. Backstage insights: Colonial Office data
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
'[B]ut sure its only a penny after all': Irish English discourse marker sure
1. Sure as a discourse marker in Irish English
2. The enregisterment of IrE sure
3. Sure in emigrant letters
4. Conclusions
References
Assigned gender in a corpus of nineteenth-century correspondence among settlers in the American Grea
1. Introduction
2. Text work
3. Results
4. Conclusions
References
Index

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