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A dictionary of European anglicisms : a usage dictionary of anglicisms in sixteen European languages
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ISBN: 0198235194 9780198235194 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

Text types and the history of English
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ISBN: 1282193740 9786612193743 3110197162 3110173727 9783110197167 9783110173727 9781282193741 6612193743 Year: 2004 Volume: 139 Publisher: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter

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The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types. Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960's onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at charting the field for the history and present-day situation of the English language. In text types, a designation is linked with a more or less stable form which guides the writer's production as well as the reader's expectation, permitting one to recognize straightforward uses as well as deliberate misuses. Some two thousand of such designations are here listed with minimal definitions and dates for first occurrences. The discussion then concentrates on selected types, which are seen as especially illustrative for English: book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes. Their functions and development over time are treated in correlation with their specific linguistic characteristics and adaptations to different period styles and social changes in the readership. The functional range of text types in traditions outside England and the consequences of the export of English categories are exemplified by the history of Scots/Scottish English and of English in India. The arguments are accompanied by a lavish supply of textual excerpts and more than fifty pages of facsimiles, which are especially relevant for insights derived from typographical features. A full bibliography and indices are provided at the end. The book will prove useful for decisions on the constitution of representative text corpora and stimulate research into a greater number of individual text types as well as contrastive analyses at least among European languages.


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Max und Moritz in aller Munde : Wandlungen eines Kinderbuches : eine Ausstellung in der Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln 27. Juni - 30. September 1997
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ISBN: 3931596109 9783931596101 Year: 1997 Volume: 3 Publisher: Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln,


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An east midland revision of the South English legendary : a selection from ms CUL add. 3039
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ISBN: 3533025039 9783533025030 Year: 1976 Volume: 4 Publisher: Heidelberg : Winter Universitätsverlag,

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English in Europe
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ISBN: 0198237146 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

Even more Englishes: studies 1996-1997
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ISBN: 1283358352 9786613358356 9027275564 9789027275561 902724880X 1556197195 9781556197192 9789027248800 Year: 1998 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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Even More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlach's more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties. The collection starts with principal questions as to what can rightly be regarded as 'English', looks at specific features of emigrant Englishes and the value of individual features as evidence for linguistic geography - and for linguistic jokes. The functional range of Scots is traced through its history, and the question is raised whether we are justified to speak of 'Celtic Englishes' in Britain and Ireland. Two papers investigate the forms and fu

A dictionary of European Anglicisms
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ISBN: 9786611345976 1281345970 0191536172 1435610113 9780191536175 9781281345974 9780199283064 0199283060 0198235194 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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The first dictionary of its kind to provide an exhaustive comparative treatment of the influence of English on other European languages. Covering sixteen selected languages from different language families, entries consist of words which are recognizably English in form and which appear in at least one of the languages tested. Entries comprise of a brief definition, followed by a summary paragraph containing a wealth of historical and linguistic information. Many entries are also. accompanied by a grid summarizing the distribution of the word across Europe. - ;A Dictionary of European Anglicis

An annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century grammars of English
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ISBN: 1283174758 9786613174758 9027283885 9789027283887 1556192568 9781556192562 9027237522 9789027237521 Year: 1998 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars working in different disciplines of social history, and the history of education in particular, it is still true that major sections of the evidence are largely uncollected. This is especially so for school books: there is virtually a gap between the 18th century and the present grammatical traditio


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Focus on Scotland
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ISBN: 1283093022 9786613093028 9027286361 9789027286369 902724863X 9789027248633 9781283093026 6613093025 Year: 1985 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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This collection comprises 15 essays ranging from the social history of and attitudes towards Scots to the representation of Scottishness in literary language and to modern sociolinguistic work. The uniqueness of the historical and present-day linguistic situation in Scotland makes the volume of particular concern not only to Scotophiles, but also to linguists interested in bidialectalism, language planning, literary dialect, urban surveys, and language and education. The authors include linguistist Scotland, England, the United States, Scandinavia and Germany.

Still more Englishes
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ISBN: 9789027275042 9027275041 9781588112637 1588112632 128335828X 9781283358286 9027248877 1588112632 9789027248879 9786613358288 Year: 2002 Volume: 28 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub.

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This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in Ulster and in Scotland, forms and functions of English in Southeast Asia, the spread of rhyming slang, and varieties of ELT. The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of the most important publications devoted to varieties of English around the world.

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