Ivor Timmis

Historical Spoken Language Research (eBook, PDF)

Corpus Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Historical Research on Spoken Language: Corpus Perspectives uses historical sources to discuss continuity and change in spoken language. Based on two corpora compiled using data from sociological and anthropological studies of Victorian London and 1930s Bolton, the author shows how historical spoken corpora can illuminate the nature of spoken language as well as the attitudes, values and behaviour of the specific community represented in a corpus. This book:

• demonstrates how spoken language can be examined using material collected before the advent of sophisticated recording equipment and large-scale computerised corpora;
• shows how other written sources such as diaries, letters and existing historical corpora can be used to analyse informal language use as far back as the fifteenth century;
• provides insight into the longevity and resilience of many spoken language features which are often regarded as vernacular or non-standard;
• comes with a companion website which gives full access to the Bolton Worktown Corpus.

Historical Research on Spoken Language is key reading for researchers and students working in relevant areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315390031
• Artikelnr.: 49041115

Autorenporträt

Ivor Timmis is Reader in English Language Teaching at Leeds Beckett University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction - In search of spoken language in the past
Chapter 2 The Bolton/Worktown Corpus (BWC) and the Mayhew Corpus (MC)
Chapter 3 Windows on Society: pronouns and vague category markers
Chapter 4 Evaluation, Affect and Intensity
Chapter 5: Dialect and identity
Chapter 6 Sources and resources for historical spoken language research:
beyond the MC and the BWC
Chapter 7 Vernacular grammar: longevity and obsolescence
Chapter 8 Vernacular continuity
Chapter 9 Reflections