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An insightful exploration of English in South Africa, ideal for scholars and students concerned with forms of contemporary English. The volume investigates a range of sociolinguistic factors, challenges and changes that South Africans face as a result of multilingualism and globalisation in both education and social interaction.

A comprehensive overview of variation in World Englishes, analysing a wide spectrum of English varieties and registers around the globe. It is essential reading for students and researchers in World Englishes, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.

This book documents and describes the lesser-known varieties of English which have been overlooked and understudied within the canon of English linguistics. The aim of this work is to spark further interest in systematic fieldwork and sociolinguistic documentation of minority Englishes in a postcolonial world.

This book explores the role of Russian English in the domains of politics, business, education, mass media, advertisement, tourism, youth subcultures and literature. With a fascinating focus on the role of language in attitudes and identity, Russian English will appeal to students and researchers across a wide range of fields.

Led by a team of experts, this book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. This study challenges and questions 'standard' language ideologies and highlights the importance of non-standard vernacular forms.

A collection of new case studies by world-renowned and emerging scholars in the field, which explores English syntactic structure, variation, and change, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically. It is ideal reading for scholars and advanced students in English syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic theory and corpus linguistics.

Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume.

As a result of colonisation, many varieties of English now exist around the world. This 2005 book explores the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes, and how it came about that many still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past.

An intensive overview of Mexican American English, linking it to the speech of other immigrant groups worldwide. This study is of particular interest to students and researchers in linguistics, as it provides insight into language contact, immigrant groups' response to majority cultures, and an analysis of language-transfer effects.

A study of how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian speakers have been represented in British fiction. It explores the evolution of language ideologies and explains its computational techniques as part of a digital humanities toolkit. An ideal text for students and scholars of English historical linguistics and English literary studies.

This book is aimed at linguists and students interested in the history of English, especially from a genre-oriented perspective, and literary scholars interested in style and poetic language. It places binomials - word pairs - in the context of phonology, stylistics, semantics, translation theory and practice in various periods.

A thorough overview and novel analysis of changes to negation, integrating insights and methods from several subfields of linguistics. This book uses statistical techniques and linguistic corpora to track language change. It will be ideal reading for researchers and graduate students in linguistics and the history of English.

Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume.

Looking specifically at morphological and syntactic change, this book draws on a diverse range of written language data. Examining a variety of genres such as sermons, chronicles, legal and literary texts, it shows the Late Modern period to be an important era in the development of English.

This volume is a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to processes underlying language change. Clearly defined core concepts are introduced against new psycholinguistic research, taking into account synchronic structures and evidence from language history. It is ideal reading for scholars of historical linguistics and psycholinguistics alike.

This book explores the role of Russian English in the domains of politics, business, education, mass media, advertisement, tourism, youth subcultures and literature. With a fascinating focus on the role of language in attitudes and identity, Russian English will appeal to students and researchers across a wide range of fields.

Highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics and language acquisition. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives as well as an up-to-date overview of the respective fields.

The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.

This book documents and describes the lesser-known varieties of English which have been overlooked and understudied within the canon of English linguistics. The aim of this work is to spark further interest in systematic fieldwork and sociolinguistic documentation of minority Englishes in a postcolonial world.

The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field.

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. The novel insights offered in this book extend our knowledge of the English language at the onset of the modern period.

Provides a new perspective on the evolution of the language of medicine, based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts. It is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.

Looking specifically at morphological and syntactic change, this book draws on a diverse range of written language data. Examining a variety of genres such as sermons, chronicles, legal and literary texts, it shows the Late Modern period to be an important era in the development of English.

Led by a team of experts, this book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. This study challenges and questions 'standard' language ideologies and highlights the importance of non-standard vernacular forms.

The first volume to focus on the communicative aspects of English manuscripts from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how these handwritten texts can be used to analyse the history of language as communication between individuals and groups, and discusses the challenges these documents present to present-day scholars.

The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.

This book documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English from the Pacific, South America and the South Atlantic to West Africa and the Caribbean, exploring their social histories and showing their relevance for language spread and change.

This volume provides the first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes', with chapters on areas as diverse as Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. This is a timely and important topic, with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.

Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This volume brings together a team of leading English historical linguists to discuss and suggest solutions to a range of problems in the phonology, syntax, dialectology and onomastics of older English.

Provides a new perspective on the evolution of the language of medicine, based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts. It is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.