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Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides, dictionaries, and school curricula. Such authorities have aspired to 'fix' the language, sometimes by keeping English exactly where it is, but also by trying to improve the current state of the language. Anne Curzan demonstrates the important role prescriptivism plays in the history of the English language, as a sociolinguistic factor in language change and as a vital meta-discourse about language. Starting with a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon, she highlights the significant role played by Microsoft's grammar checker, debates about 'real words', non-sexist language reform, and efforts to reappropriate stigmatized terms. Essential reading for anyone interested in the regulation of language, the book is a fascinating re-examination of how we tell language history.

English language --- Historical linguistics --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Grammar, Historical --- Usage&delete& --- History --- Purisme (linguistique) --- Langue standard --- Règle (linguistique) --- Histore --- Normalisation --- Grammar, historical. --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Anglais (langue) --- Sociolinguistique --- Lexicographie --- Linguistique historique --- Historical linguistics. --- Grammaire historique --- Histoire --- Usage --- Grammar, Historical. --- History. --- English language. --- Language arts & disciplines --- Usage. --- Historical & comparative. --- Sociolinguistique. --- Linguistique historique. --- Langue standard. --- Grammaire historique. --- Histoire. --- Histore. --- Normalisation. --- Normalisation linguistique. --- English language - Grammar, Historical --- English language - Usage - History --- English language - History --- Règle (linguistique)

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In vielen Bereichen der Linguistik werden Textkorpora, Sprachkorpora oder multimodale Korpora heute als empirische Basis verwendet. Aufbauend auf Methoden des 19. Jahrhunderts haben sich dabei mit dem Aufkommen von elektronischen Korpora seit den 1940ern neue Standards für linguistische Annotation und Vorverarbeitung sowie für qualitative und quantitative Untersuchungen entwickelt.Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Geschichte, Methoden und Anwendungen der Korpuslinguistik. Die einzelnen Überblicks- und Spezialartikel sind von Experten und Expertinnen der jeweiligen Gebiete geschrieben. Dabei wird auf klare und umfassende Darstellung, eine gute Vernetzung zwischen den Artikel und weiterführende Hinweise Wert gelegt. This handbook provides an up-to-date survey of the field of corpus linguistics, a field whose methodology has revolutionized much of the empirical work done in most fields of linguistic study over the past decade. Corpus linguistics investigates human language by starting out from large collections of texts - spoken, written, or recorded. These language corpora, which are now regularly available in electronic form, are the basis for quantitative and qualitative research on almost any question of linguistic interest. Many techniques that are in use in corpus linguistics today are rooted in the tradition of the late 18th and 19th century, when linguistics began to make use of mathematical and empirical methods. Modern corpus linguistics has used and developed these methods in close connection with computer science and computational linguistics. The handbook sketches the history of corpus linguistics, shows its potential, discusses its problems, and describes various methods of collecting, annotating, and searching corpora as well as processing corpus data. It also reports case studies that illustrate the wide range of linguistic research questions addressed in corpus linguistics. The over 60 articles included in the handbook are divided into five sections:(1) the origins and history of corpus linguistics and surveys of its relationship to central fields of linguistics (2) corpus compilation (3) corpus types (4) preprocessing of corpora (5) the use and exploitation of corpora. The final section gives an overview of the results of corpus studies obtained in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, stylometry, dialectology, and discourse analysis. It also reports on recent advances made in human and machine translation, contrastive studies, computer-assisted language learning, and automatic summarization. The contributors to the volume are internationally known experts in their respective fields. The handbook is intended for a wide audience ranging from teachers, university students, and scholars to anyone interested in the use of computers in linguistic analyses and applications.

Computational linguistics. --- Corpora (Linguistics). --- Corpora (Linguistics) --- Computational linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Linguistics --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Corpus-based analysis (Linguistics) --- Corpus linguistics --- Data processing --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Mathematical linguistics --- Multilingual computing --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Corpus linguistics, Computational linguistics.

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Historical linguistics --- English language --- English language -- Etymology. --- English language -- History. --- Historical linguistics. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Language --- History --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- History. --- Etymology --- Word history --- Germanic languages --- English language - History --- English Linguistics. --- Language History.