Quoting in parliamentary question time: exploring recent change
"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 relevant article-length investigations on histor...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK New York Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2021
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| Series: | Studies in English language
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| Author Notes: | Elisabeth Reber |
| Summary: | "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 relevant article-length investigations on historical recordings from the perspectives of Historical Pragmatics (Jucker and Landert 2015) and Conversation Analysis (Clayman and Heritage 2002a; Clayman et al. 2006, 2007; Heritage and Clayman 2013), as well as the acknowledgement of the need for historical spoken corpora in Interactional Linguistics (e.g., Barth-Weingarten 2014; Couper-Kuhlen 2011), questions of recent change in interactional English have nevertheless remained under-researched to date. Because of the lack of suitable recordings, the historical study of recent change in spoken English was not considered to be a methodologically feasible research direction even as little as a decade ago (e.g., Mair 2006: 21). Against this backdrop, the present study breaks new ground in analysing evolving practices in spoken English (here forms of reported speech) based on authentic recordings from different periods"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781108835978 9781108799041 |