The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present

Paula Rodríguez-PuenteLanguage Arts & Disciplines
The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present

Author: Paula Rodríguez-Puente

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108688239

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almost 400 years in the history of English, and provides both a diachronic and synchronic account based on over 12,000 examples extracted from stratified electronic corpora. The corpus analysis provides evidence of how registers can inform us about the history of English, as it traces and compares the usage and stylistic drifts of phrasal verbs across ten different genres - drama, fiction, journals, diaries, letters, medicine, news, science, sermons, and trial proceedings. The study also sheds new light on the morpho-syntactic and semantic features of phrasal verbs, proposing a new approach to the category, considering not only on their grammatical features, but also their historical development, by discussing the category in terms of a number of central mechanisms of language change.

Long Story Short: An Interactive Journey through the History of English

Paula Rodríguez AbruñeirasLanguage Arts & Disciplines
Long Story Short: An Interactive Journey through the History of English

Author: Paula Rodríguez Abruñeiras

Publisher: Universitat de València

ISBN: 9788491348412

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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This textbook intends to do a clear, informal review of the history of the English language. Although the main focus is not to provide a thorough social description of the different periods in which the history of English is divided, we want to make it clear that language has changed because it is used by society, and therefore one cannot be understood without the other.

Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time

Elisabeth ReberLanguage Arts & Disciplines
Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time

Author: Elisabeth Reber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108876896

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Why do recordings of speakers engaging in reported speech at British Prime Minister's Questions from the 1970s–80s sound so distant to us? This cutting-edge study explores how the practices of quoting have changed at parliamentary question time in light of changing conventions and an evolving media landscape. Comparing data from authentic audio and video recordings from 1978-1988 and 2003-2013, it provides evidence for qualitative and quantitative changes at the micro level (e.g., grammaticalisation processes in the reporting clause) and in more global structures (e.g., rhetorical patterns, and activities). These analytic findings contribute to the theoretical modelling of evidentiality in English, our understanding of constructions, interaction, and change, and of PMQs as an evolving community of practice. One of the first large-scale studies of recent change in an interactional genre of English, this ground-breaking monograph offers a framework for a diachronic interactional sociolinguistic research programme.