Christian Mair, Mair Christian

Twentieth-Century English

History, Variation and Standardization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents changes to the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of Standard English over the past century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521115834
• ISBN-10: 0521115833
• Artikelnr.: 26222090

Autorenporträt

Christian Mair is Chair in English Linguistics at the Universität Freiburg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Setting the scene
2. Ongoing language change: problems of detection and verification
3. Lexical change in twentieth-century English
4. Grammatical changes in twentieth-century English
5. Pronunciation
6. Language change in context: changing communicative and discourse norms in twentieth-century English
7. Conclusion.