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- Allan, Rachel, 1966-
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Lexical bundles from one century to the next : An analysis of language input in English teaching texts
- 2018
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In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1566-5852 .- 1569-9854. ; 19:2, s. 167-185
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This corpus study compares lexical bundles found in the language input of a selection of historical and current English language teaching materials to see what insights they can give into changes in spoken language use. English teaching texts published between 1905 and 1917 were used to construct a historical corpus, and a collection of English language self-study texts published between 2004 and 2014 were used for comparison. Both groups of texts focused on spoken language. The most frequent three-word lexical bundles extracted from each corpus varied considerably. The contemporary texts showed both a greater use of formulaic language and more syntactic complexity within it, while the historical texts relied on simpler structures. An exploratory analysis of the lexical bundles in the historical texts suggests, however, that viewed in conjunction with other historical sources, they can assist in building a picture of spoken language use of the period.
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- Anglemark, Linnéa, 1973-
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"Heav'n bess you, my Dear" : Using the ESDD corpus to investigate address terms in historical drama dialogue
- 2018
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In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1566-5852 .- 1569-9854. ; 19:2, s. 186-204
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The English and Swedish Drama Dialogue (ESDD) corpus is a sociopragmatically tagged corpus of English and Swedish drama texts from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using this corpus, I investigated the use of the address terms Fool, Dear, Sir and Brother. The study focused on the contexts where these terms were found and traced diachronic usage patterns. The main questions asked in the investigation concerned, first, the speaker's attitude towards the addressees when using the address phrases and whether attitudes connected with particular phrases changed over time; second, whether the phrases could be said to signal intimacy or distance between the interlocutors.
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- Kytö, Merja, et al.
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Introduction
- 2018
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In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1566-5852 .- 1569-9854. ; 19:2, s. 161-166
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- Kytö, Merja, et al.
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Introduction
- 2018
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In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. - : JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO. - 1566-5852 .- 1569-9854. ; 19:2, s. 161-166
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- Walker, Terry, 1961-, et al.
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“Speaking base approbious words” : Speech Representation in Early Modern English Witness Depositions
- 2017
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In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1566-5852 .- 1569-9854. ; 18:1, s. 1-29
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper explores the representation of speech in Early Modern English witness depositions. We demonstrate that Semino and Short’s (2004) framework of description, which has for the most part been used in explorations of present-day texts, is generally applicable to our historical data. Our study shows that factors such as the importance of the evidence cited and the clarity of the deposition narrative were crucial considerations in representing speech in different contexts.
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- Wang, Ying
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A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern English dialogues
- 2019
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In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1566-5852 .- 1569-9854. ; 20:1, s. 20-50
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Composite predicates (CPs), that is, complex predicate structures comprising a light verb and an eventive noun (e.g., make a move or give a speech) are common in Present-day English and are particularly characteristic of spoken language. The aim of the paper is to trace language changes involving CPs from 1560 to 1760, a period in which the use of CPs has not yet received adequate scholarly attention. Specifically, the study examines the frequencies, lexical productivity and syntactic patterns of CPs in two types of Early Modern English (EModE) dialogues, drawn from Trial Proceedings and Drama Comedy sampled in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 – a 1.2-million word computerized corpus of EModE speech-related texts. The results reveal significant differences between the two types of dialogue and shed light on the development of CPs in association with grammaticalization and lexicalization.
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